Fatal pulmonary tumour thrombotic microangiopathy:Do typical FDG-PET findings exist?

NuklearMedizin

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-9

  Cicone, F ^a   Del Forno, M ^a   Papa, A ^a   Comito, F ^a   Festa, A ^a   Uccini, S ^a   Scopinaro, F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBROXOL; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; MACROLIDE; OSTEOPONTIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; STEROID; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CARDIOVERSION; CELL DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG TUMOR; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY TUMOR THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHY; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; RESUSCITATION; STEROID THERAPY; STOMACH CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE VALUES; SYNDROME; THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHIES;

EID: 84857151811     PISSN: 00295566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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