Clinical value and limitations of [11C]-methionine PET for detection and localization of suspected parathyroid adenomas

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 356-363

  Herrmann, Ken ^a,b   Takei, Toshiki ^a   Kanegae, Kakuko ^a   Shiga, Tohru ^a   Buck, Andreas K ^b   Altomonte, Jennifer ^b   Schwaiger, Markus ^b   Schuster, Tibor ^b   Nishijima, Kenichi ^a   Kuge, Yuji ^a   Tamaki, Nagara ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Hyperparathyroidism; MET PET; MIBI scintigraphy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE C 11; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 68449102377     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-009-0205-4     Document Type: Article

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