Adrenal masses: The value of additional fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) in differentiating between benign and malignant lesions

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 349-354

  Okada, Masahiro ^a   Shimono, Taro ^a   Komeya, Yoshihiro ^a   Ando, Rina ^a   Kagawa, Yuki ^a   Katsube, Takashi ^a   Kuwabara, Masatomo ^a   Yagyu, Yukinobu ^a   Kumano, Seishi ^a   Imaoka, Izumi ^a   Tsuchiya, Norio ^a   Ashikaga, Ryuichiro ^a   Hosono, Makoto ^a   Murakami, Takamichi ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenal gland; Adrenal tumor; CT attenuation value; FDG PET CT; SUVmax

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL GLANDS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67651172820     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-009-0246-4     Document Type: Article

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