Elevated FDG Uptake in Right Middle Segmental Bronchus Impacted with Foreign Body

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 241-242

  Xing, Yan ^a   Zhao, Jinhua ^a   Chen, Xiang ^a   Song, Jianhua ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

FDG; Foreign body; Inflammatory reaction; PET CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY ASPIRATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; COUGH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 67650600621     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31819a2037     Document Type: Article

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