Pitfalls in radiation oncology: "Myocardial metastasis" in PET-CT after palliative radiation treatment of the left 5th rib

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 359-362

  Kropil P ^a   Budach, W ^a   Bolke E ^a   Gerber, P A ^a   Zinnmann, F ^a   Hautzel, H ^a   Antoch, G ^a   Scherer, A ^a   Matuschek, C ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Costae; Diagnostic errors; False positive reactions; Myocardial metastasis; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; ERLOTINIB; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; SUNITINIB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MEDICAL ERROR; METASTASIS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOLYSIS; PANCYTOPENIA; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR GROWTH;

BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RIBS;

EID: 84862689267     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-011-0059-y     Document Type: Article

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