Use of fluorine-18-labelled deoxyglucose positron emission tomography with computed tomography to localize a paraganglioma in pregnancy

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1238-1242

  Koroscil, Thomas M ^a,b   McDonald, Stephen ^a,b   Stutes, Shahan ^a,b   Vila, Raul J ^a,b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KETTERING MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

extra adrenal pheochromocytoma; fluorodeoxyglucose; paraganglioma; positron emission tomography; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; LABETALOL; METADRENALIN; METHYLDOPA; NORMETADRENALIN; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LAPAROTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URINALYSIS;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAGANGLIOMA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650418657     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181eda0de     Document Type: Article

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