PET scanning used for monitoring treatment response in mycobacterium avium complex infection mimicking malignancy

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 818-820

  Drijkoningen, Jesse ^a   Van Der Pol, Harry ^a   De Vries, Michiel ^a  

^a Zuyderland Medical Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atypical mycobacterial infection; Lung cancer; PET scanning; Respiratory infection

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOTREXATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG NODULE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WASTING SYNDROME; LUNG TUMOR; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73449123425     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181b7daf6     Document Type: Article

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