Intensely hypermetabolic extra-axial brainstem tumor in erdheim-chester disease

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 604-607

  Tan, Iain Beehuat ^a   Padhy, Ajit Kumar ^b   Thng, Choon Hua ^c   Osmany, Saabry ^b   Magsombol, Butch ^b   Ho, Yong Howe ^a   Tham, Chee Kian ^a   Quek, Richard ^a   Tao, Miriam ^a   Lim, Soon Thye ^a  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET ^*  (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Erheim chester disease; FDG; PET; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CASE REPORT; ERDHEIM CHESTER DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; XANTHOGRANULOMA;

BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; ERDHEIM-CHESTER DISEASE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350099220     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181b06a7e     Document Type: Article

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