Adrenocortical tumor with two distinct elements revealed by combined 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and 131I nor-cholesterol scintigraphy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3631-3632

  Libé, Rossella ^a,c,d   Tissier, Frédérique ^a,b,e   Bienvenu, Marie ^e   Groussin, Lionel ^a,b,c,d   Joannidis, Sylvie ^g   Hignette, Chantal ^f   Dousset, Bertrand ^b,e   Legmann, Paul ^b,e   Faraggi, Marc ^b,f   Richard, Bruno ^b,e   Bertagna, Xavier ^a,b,c,d   Tenenbaum, Florence ^e,h  

^a INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^d INCa Comete Network ^*  (France)

^e Department of Pathology ^*  (France)

^f HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^g Sud Essonne Hospital   (France)

^h Department of Nuclear Medicine ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 IODOMETHYLNORCHOLESTEROL I 131; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA; ADRENAL SCINTISCANNING; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349907962     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2009-1025     Document Type: Article

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