F-18 FDG PET/CT imaging of endogenous cushing syndrome

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Jackson, Tatianie A ^a   Choong, Karen W ^b   Eng, Jessica A ^b   McAneny, David ^b   Subramaniam, Rathan M ^a   Knapp, Philip E ^b  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cushing syndrome; FDG PET CT; medullary thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HYDROCORTISONE;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ACNE; ADULT; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTROPHY; HYPOKALEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG EDEMA; LIMB WEAKNESS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; THYROID MASS; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY;

CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80955136523     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182336360     Document Type: Article

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