Unexpected visitor on FDG PET/CT - Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT) in mesentery in a case of retroperitoneal extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma: Is the BAT activation secondary to catecholamine-secreting pheochromocytoma?

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Joshi, Prathamesh Vijay ^a   Lele, Vikram Ramchandra ^a  

^a JASLOK HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

brown adipose tissue; FDG PET CT; mesentery; pheochromocytoma

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CASE REPORT; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; RETROPERITONEAL EXTRA ADRENAL PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; CATECHOLAMINES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERY; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE;

EID: 84859642238     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31824437e7     Document Type: Article

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