Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis: Imaging characteristics of planar and SPECT/CT bone scan versus 18F-FDG and 18F-sodium fluoride PET/CT scanning

Japanese Journal of Radiology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 766-769

  Sahoo, Manas Kumar ^a   Karunanithi, Sellam ^a   Bal, Chandra Shekhar ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

99mTc MDP bone scintigraphy; FDG PET CT; Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis; Sodium fluoride PET CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; SODIUM FLUORIDE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG UPTAKE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ALVEOLAR MICROLITHIASIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RARE DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RARE DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM FLUORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84890521165     PISSN: 18671071     EISSN: 1867108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-013-0250-4     Document Type: Article

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