F-18 FDG uptake in focal fatty infiltration of liver mimicking hepatic malignancy on PET/CT images

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1146-1148

  Kim, Young Hwan ^a   Kim, Ji Young ^a   Jang, Sung June ^b   Chung, Hyun Woo ^c   Jang, Ki Seok ^a   Paik, Seung Sam ^a   Song, Soon Young ^a   Choi, Yun Young ^a,d  

^a Hanyang University Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b The Armed Forces Capital Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Konkuk University Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

F 18 fluorodeoxyglucose; fatty infiltration; liver; PET CT; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER NODULE; LIVER SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80955123734     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182335f60     Document Type: Article

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