Salivary duct carcinoma with perineural spread to facial canal: F-18 FDG PET/CT detection

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 925-928

  Nguyen, Ba D ^a   Roarke, Michael C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial canal; Parotid; Perineural spread; Positron emission tomography; Salivary duct carcinoma

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FACIAL CANAL METASTASIS; FACIAL NERVE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINEURIUM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SALIVARY GLAND CARCINOMA; TEMPORAL BONE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; FACE TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; SCINTISCANNING;

CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SALIVARY GLAND NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58749088245     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31818c4e38     Document Type: Article

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