The appearance of pulmonary mucormycosis on FDG PET/CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 801-803

  Dang, Chun Jiang ^a   Li, Ya Jun ^b   Zhan, Feng Hua ^c   Shang, Xiao Ming ^a  

^a Tangshan Municipal Worker's Hospital   (China)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Tianjin Children's Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

18F FDG; CT; mucormycosis; PET; pulmonary

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG AUSCULTATION; LUNG INFECTION; MUCORMYCOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863872698     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31825ae470     Document Type: Article

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