Assessment of pulmonary melanoma metastases with 18F-FDG PET/CT: Which PET-negative patients require additional tests for definitive staging?

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2451-2457

  Mayerhoefer, Marius E ^a   Prosch, Helmut ^a   Herold, Christian J ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Karanikas, Georgios ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Melanoma; Multiple pulmonary nodules; Neoplasm metastasis; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WHOLE BODY CT;

AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870311699     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-012-2499-x     Document Type: Article

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