Frequency and clinical implications of incidental new primary cancers detected on true whole-body 18F-FDG PET/CT studies

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 333-339

  Sebro, Ronnie ^a   Aparici, Carina Mari ^a   Pampaloni, Miguel Hernandez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; incidental malignancies; incidentaloma; oncology; positron emission tomography computed tomography; staging; synchronous primary malignancies

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RESTAGING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METACHRONOUS PRIMARY MALIGNANCY; METASTASIS; PRIMARY TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYNCHRONOUS PRIMARY MALIGNANCY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR BIOPSY; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WHOLE BODY PET;

COHORT STUDIES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84874938532     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32835f163f     Document Type: Article

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