Tumor thrombus in the renal vein from an adrenal metastasis of lung cancer: 18FDG PET/CT findings

Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 189-192

  Filippi, Luca ^a   Sardella, Barbara ^a   Ciorra, Alida ^a   Scopinaro, Francesco ^b   Bagni, Oreste ^a  

^a SANTA MARIA GORETTI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

18FDG PET; adrenal gland; lung cancer; tumor thrombus

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PARAFFIN; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL METASTASIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY VEIN THROMBOSIS; LUNG CANCER; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PET-CT SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADRENAL TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; KIDNEY VEIN; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING; SECONDARY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RENAL VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84902125973     PISSN: 10849785     EISSN: 15578852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2014.1612     Document Type: Article

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