Staging primary head and neck cancers with 18F-FDG PET/CT: Is intravenous contrast administration really necessary?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1417-1424

  Yoshida, Keisuke ^a   Suzuki, Akiko ^a   Nagashima, Toshiyuki ^a   Lee, Jin ^a   Horiuchi, Choichi ^a   Tsukuda, Mamoru ^a   Inoue, Tomio ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

18F FDG PET CT; Contrast media; Head and neck cancer; Staging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 68949205727     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1127-8     Document Type: Article

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