Demonstration of diffuse leptomeningeal metastasis in a treated case of medulloblastoma with F-18 FDG PET/CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 530-532

  Tripathi, Madhavi ^a   Jain, Nikunj ^a   Jaimini, Abhinav ^a   Garg, Gunjan ^a   D'Souza, Maria M ^a   Sharma, Rajnish ^a   Grover, Rajesh K ^b   Mondal, Anupam ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b UCMS AND GTB HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

FDG PET CT; Leptomeningeal metastasis; Medulloblastoma

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949111954     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181abb72e     Document Type: Article

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