False positive PET scan deserves attention

Journal of B.U.ON.

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 836-841

  Akgul, Asli Gul ^a   Liman, Serife Tuba ^a   Topcu, Salili ^a   Yuksel, Mustafa ^b  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cancer; False positive; Positron emission tomography; Pulmonary nodule; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHRACOSIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG LESION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG SEQUESTRATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE;

EID: 84908456259     PISSN: 11070625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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