Azygos venous tumor thrombus from renal cell carcinoma detected by F-18 FDG PET/CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 832-833

  Probst, Stephan ^a   Seltzer, Alexandra ^a   Chachoua, Abraham ^a   Friedman, Kent ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

azygos; clot; F 18 FDG; FDG PET CT; IVC thrombus; PET CT; renal cell carcinoma; thrombus; tumor thrombus; venous thrombus

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY VEIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR THROMBUS; VEIN DILATATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AZYGOS VEIN; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RENAL VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77957335265     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181ef0bae     Document Type: Article

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