A pilot study of FDG PET/CT detects a link between brown adipose tissue and breast cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cao, Qi ^a   Hersl, Jerome ^a   La, Hongloan ^b   Smith, Mark ^a   Jenkins, Jason ^a   Goloubeva, Olga ^a   Dilsizian, Vasken ^a   Tkaczuk, Katherine ^b   Chen, Wengen ^a   Jones, Laundette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Brown adipose tissue; FDG PET CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PILOT STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84896731564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-126     Document Type: Article

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