Differentiation of normal thymus from anterior mediastinal lymphoma and lymphoma recurrence at pediatric PET/CT

Radiology

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 613-622

  Gawande, Rakhee S ^a   Khurana, Aman ^a   Messing, Solomon ^c   Zhang, Dong ^d   Castañeda, Rosalinda T ^a   Goldsby, Robert E ^e   Hawkins, Randall A ^e   Daldrup Link, Heike E ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUE; THYMUS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THYMUS GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84863181642     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11110715     Document Type: Article

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