Incidental head and neck 18F-FDG uptake on PET/CT without corresponding morphological lesion: Early predictor of cancer development?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1397-1406

  Heusner, Till A ^a   Hahn, Steffen ^a   Hamami, Monia E ^a   Kögel, Svenja ^a   Forsting, Michael ^a   Bockisch, Andreas ^a   Antoch, Gerald ^a   Stahl, Alexander R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; PET CT; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PALATINE TONSIL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID CANCER;

ADENOIDS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; NECK; PALATINE TONSIL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949210501     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1113-1     Document Type: Article

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