Incidental inflammatory findings in nerves and in patients with neoplastic diseases evaluated by 18F-FDG-PET/CT

Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Bertagna, Francesco ^a   Giubbini, Ralfaele ^b   Biasiotto, Giorgio ^b   Rosenbaum, Joshua ^c   Alavi, Abass ^c  

^a Civic Hospital of Brescia   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DICLOFENAC; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; KETOPROFEN; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; BRACHIAL NERVE INFLAMMATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG UPTAKE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NEUROPATHY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PTOSIS; SACROILIITIS; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE INFLAMMATION;

FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURITIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72249093929     PISSN: 11081430     EISSN: 17905427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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