Diagnostic usefulness of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the differentiation of pulmonary artery sarcoma and pulmonary embolism

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 671-676

  Ito, Kimiteru ^a   Kubota, Kazuo ^b   Morooka, Miyako ^b   Shida, Yoshitaka ^b   Hasuo, Kanehiro ^b   Endo, Hisako ^b   Matsuda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

FDG; PET CT; Pulmonary artery sarcoma (PAS); Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IOPAMIDOL; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG THROMBOSIS; LUNG ARTERY SARCOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LESION; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SARCOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; SARCOMA; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349332466     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-009-0292-y     Document Type: Article

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