Usefulness of composite methionine-positron emission tomography/3.0-tesla magnetic resonance imaging to detect the localization and extent of early-stage Cushing adenoma

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 750-755

  Ikeda, Hidetoshi ^a   Abe, Takehiko ^b   Watanabe, Kazuo ^a  

^a Southern Tohoku General Hospital and Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience   (Japan)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Cushing disease; Fluorine 18 labeled fluorodeoxyglucose; Magnetic resonance imaging; Methionine; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HYDROCORTISONE; METHIONINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING ADENOMA; CUSHING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950686021     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.7.JNS09285     Document Type: Article

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