Two Cases of 18 F-FDG PET/CT Findings in Acinar Cell Carcinoma of the Pancreas

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 209-212

  Takanami, Kentaro ^a,b   Abe, Keiko ^a   Mitamura, Atsushi ^a   Miyazaki, Shukichi ^a   Ishida, Kazuyuki ^a   Yamada, Shogo ^a   Takahashi, Shoki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acinar cell carcinoma; FDG

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN; AMYLASE; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CHROMOGRANIN; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; VIMENTIN;

ACINAR CELL CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650624095     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31819a2076     Document Type: Article

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