Incidental finding of focal FDG uptake in the bowel during PET/CT: CT features and correlation with histopathologic results

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Kei, Pin Lin ^a,b   Vikram, Raghunandan ^a   Yeung, Henry W D ^c   Stroehlein, John R ^a   Macapinlac, Homer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c HONG KONG SANATORIUM AND HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

FDG; Focal bowel uptake; Incidental finding; PET CT

Indexed keywords

CHLORAL HYDRATE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CECUM; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; COLON CARCINOMA; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; DRUG UPTAKE; DYSPLASIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE POLYP; INTESTINE SURGERY; LIVER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; MYXOSARCOMA; OVARY METASTASIS; OVARY TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; SKIN METASTASIS; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN; STOMACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX CANCER; TONGUE TUMOR; TONSIL CANCER; TONSIL TUMOR; TRANSVERSE COLON; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VILLOUS ADENOMA; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TEXAS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951946972     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3703     Document Type: Article

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