Usefulness and limitations of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography for the detection of malignancy of orbital tumors

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 495-499

  Miyamoto, Junichi ^a   Tatsuzawa, Kazunori ^a   Owada, Kei ^a   Kawabe, Takuya ^a   Sasajima, Hiroyasu ^a   Mineura, Katsuyoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose; Orbital tumor; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MELANOMA; OPTIC NERVE TUMOR; ORBIT CANCER; ORBIT TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL, MARGINAL ZONE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; ORBITAL PSEUDOTUMOR; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56849087624     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.48.495     Document Type: Article

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