Elevated FDG activity in the spinal cord and the sciatic nerves due to neuropathy

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 950-951

  Cheng, Gang ^a,b   Chamroonrat, Wichana ^a,b   Bing, Zhanyong ^a   Huang, Steve ^a,b   Zhuang, Hongming ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FDG; Neuropathy; PET CT; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKEMIA; LIMB WEAKNESS; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMATOSIS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; NERVE BIOPSY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLYMPHOMATOSIS; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; PLASMAPHERESIS; REMYELINIZATION; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SYMPTOM; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED; BIOPSY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 74249105397     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181bed16e     Document Type: Article

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