Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma: Current functional and future molecular imaging

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Blanchet, Elise M ^a,b   Martucci, Victoria ^a,b   Pacak, Karel ^a,b  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

18F fluorodeoxyglucose; 18F fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine; 18F fluorodopamine; Genetic mutation; Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma; Positron emission tomography; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL) GUANIDINE I 131; 6 FLUORODOPA F 18; 6 FLUORODOPAMINE F 18; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CARBIDOPA; PASIREOTIDE TETRAXETAN GALLIUM GA 68; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PARAGANGLIOMA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84867352938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2011.00058     Document Type: Review

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