Detection of metastatic bone lesions in breast cancer patients: Fused 18F-Fluoride-PET/MDCT has higher accuracy than MDCT. Preliminary experience

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2632-2638

  Piccardo, Arnoldo ^a   Altrinetti, Vania ^a   Bacigalupo, Lorenzo ^a   Puntoni, Matteo ^a   Biscaldi, Ennio ^a   Gozza, Alberto ^a   Cabria, Manlio ^a   Iacozzi, Massimiliano ^a   Pasa, Ambra ^a   Morbelli, Silvia ^b   Villavecchia, Giampiero ^a   Decensi, Andrea ^a  

^a GALLIERA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

18F Fluoride; Bone metastases; Breast cancer; PET CT; PET MDCT

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE TECHNICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84865240686     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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