Imaging evaluation of the solitary pulmonary nodule

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 274-299

  Van Tassel, Dane ^a,b   Tassel, Lora Van ^b   Gotway, Michael B ^a   Korn, Ronald L ^a  

^a Scottsdale Medical Imaging   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

carcinoma; FDG PET; PET CT; positron; Solitary pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

3' FLUOROTHYMIDINE F 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LONG ACTING INSULIN; RADIOISOTOPE; SHORT ACTING DRUG; TRACER;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ATELECTASIS; BENIGN TUMOR; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BREAST METASTASIS; BRONCHUS CARCINOID; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FIBROMA; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HAMARTOMA; HEAD METASTASIS; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; IMAGE QUALITY; INSULIN PUMP; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LIPOMA; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG CYST; LUNG INFARCTION; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NECK METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSEUDOTUMOR; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RHEUMATOID NODULE; ROUNDED ATELECTASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY PET;

EID: 80455150108     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: 15365956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CPM.0b013e318234d5f5     Document Type: Article

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