Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy FDG-PET/CT findings

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 175-177

  Tashima, Yoshiko ^a   Abe, Koichiro ^a   Matsuo, Yoshio ^a   Baba, Shingo ^a   Kaneko, Koichiro ^a   Isoda, Takuro ^a   Yabuuchi, Hidetake ^a   Sasaki, Masayuki ^b   Honda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FDG PET; Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (pTTM); Tumor thrombus

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TUMOR THROMBUS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; THROMBOSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY ARTERY; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66849121648     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181966f5c     Document Type: Article

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