Incidental diagnosis of thrombus within an aneurysm on 18F-FDG PET/CT: Frequency in 926 patients

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1408-1411

  Muzaffar, Razi ^a   Kudva, Ganesh ^a   Nguyen, Nghi C ^a   Osman, Medhat M ^a,b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Cardiology (clinical); PET CT; Thrombus; Vascular

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; THROMBUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 80052628434     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.091264     Document Type: Article

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