Pulmonary aspergilloma: A potential cause of false positive fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scan

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 528-530

  Kostakis, Ioannis D ^a   Tomos, Periklis ^a   Cholidou, Kyriaki G ^a   Vaiopoulos, Aristeidis G ^a   Spartalis, Eleftherios ^a   Konofaos, Petros ^a   Michail, Panagiotis O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aspergilloma; False positive; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOMA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG LOBE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MYCETOMA; PLASMA CELL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WEDGE RESECTION;

CYSTS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84865718587     PISSN: 18636705     EISSN: 18636713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-012-0037-z     Document Type: Article

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