Improvements in small bowel carcinoid diagnosis and staging: 18F-DOPA PET, capsule endoscopy and double balloon enteroscopy

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Koornstra, J J ^a   de Vries, E G E ^a   Porte, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Carcinoid; Double balloon enteroscopy; PET

Indexed keywords

6 FLUORODOPA F 18;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE SURGERY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CARCINOID TUMOR; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JEJUNAL NEOPLASMS; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67349219739     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2008.05.015     Document Type: Article

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