Unexpected left-sided pulmonary aspiration misdiagnosed as malignancy in PET cancer screening following panendoscopy cancer screening under conscious sedation

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 604-606

  Wang, Chih Hsiu ^a   Sun, Shung Shung ^a   Hsieh, Te Chun ^a   Yen, Kuo Yang ^a   Wu, Yu Chin ^a   Lin, Yu Yi ^a   Kao, Chia Hung ^a,b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cancer screening; conscious sedation; malignancy; panendoscopy; PET; pulmonary aspiration

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CANCER SCREENING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC USE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; SCINTISCANNING; SURGERY;

CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION;

EID: 77955163977     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181e4dc56     Document Type: Article

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