A case of malignant melanoma with cardiac and gallbladder metastases detected by FDG PET-CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 948-949

  Özülker, Tamer ^a   Özülker, Filiz ^a   Cicin, Ïrfan ^b   Özpaçac, Tevfik ^a  

^a Okmeydani Educational Hospital   (Turkey)

^b TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cardiac metastasis; FDG PET CT; Gallbladder metastasis; Malignant melanoma

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ABDOMEN; ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; HEART METASTASIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; SKIN; SKIN CANCER; SKIN SURGERY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74249092245     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181bed02c     Document Type: Article

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