Dual-Time Point Whole-Body18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT Imaging in Undiagnosed Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy: A Prospective Study of 117 Patients With Sarcoidosis and TB

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Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2014, Pages e216-e220

  Maturu, Venkata Nagarjuna ^a   Agarwal, Ritesh ^a   Aggarwal, Ashutosh Nath ^a   Mittal, Bhagwant Rai ^a   Bal, Amanjit ^a   Gupta, Nalini ^a   Gupta, Dheeraj ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUE; MEDIASTINAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE BODY PET; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84925283012     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-1827     Document Type: Letter

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