Infectious and inflammatory complications of surgical management of cancer patients imaged with 18F-FDG PET/CT: A pictorial essay

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 669-679

  Makis, William ^a   Ciarallo, Anthony ^b   Rush, Christopher ^c   Hickeson, Marc ^b  

^a Brandon Regional Health Centre   (Canada)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

FDG; Infection; Inflammation; Oncology; PET CT; Surgical complications

Indexed keywords

FDG; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY PROCESS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL MANAGEMENT;

DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SURGERY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; MOXIFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; ILEORECTAL CUTANEOUS FISTULA; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INFLAMMATION; LIPOSARCOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASTECTOMY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURAL FIBROSIS; PLEUROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID CARCINOMA; SIGMOIDECTOMY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORACOTOMY; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84879274295     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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