Adrenal nodules at FDG PET/CT in patients known to have or suspected of having lung cancer: A proposal for an efficient diagnostic algorithm

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 523-530

  Brady, Matthew J ^a,b   Thomas, John ^a   Wong, Terence Z ^a   Franklin, Kendra M ^a   Ho, Lisa M ^a   Paulson, Erik K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Roper Radiologists PA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BENIGN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; ROC CURVE; SCINTISCANNING;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61749097227     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2502080219     Document Type: Article

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