Sarcoid-like reaction to malignancy on whole-body integrated 18F-FDG PET/CT: prevalence and disease pattern

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 675-681

  Chowdhury, F U ^a   Sheerin, F ^b   Bradley, K M ^b   Gleeson, F V ^b  

^a LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METASTASIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SARCOIDOSIS; WHOLE BODY PET;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67349084377     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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