Positron emission tomography with f18-fluorodeoxyglucose in the staging and preoperative evaluation of malignant pleural mesothelioma [PDF]
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2000 Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of positron emission tomography with F18-fluorodeoxyglucose in the preoperative evaluation and staging of malignant mesothelioma in patients who were candidates for aggressive combined ...
Caputo, Gary +7 more
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Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 PET in progressive emotional dysprosody [PDF]
Neurology, 2012 While the left hemisphere is important for semantic and grammatical language, the right hemisphere appears to be important for prosody.
Jonathan Graff‐Radford +3 more
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F18 fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in progressive transformation of germinal centres [PDF]
Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal, 2008 FDG-PET/CT is a widely established imaging modality for staging, restaging and monitoring therapy response in lymphoma patients. Progressive transformation of germinal centres (PTGC) is a benign condition presenting characteristically as asymptomatic ...
A Bharija +13 more
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F18-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography and computed tomography is not accurate in preoperative staging of gastric cancer [PDF]
Journal of the Korean Surgical Society, 2011 Purpose: To investigate the clinical benefits of F18-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography and computed tomography (18F-FDG-PET/CT) over multi-detector row CT (MDCT) in preoperative staging of gastric cancer.
Bae +32 more
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Positron emission tomography imaging of lung cancer: An overview of alternative positron emission tomography tracers beyond F18 fluorodeoxyglucose [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 Lung cancer has been the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in China in recent decades. Positron emission tomography-computer tomography (PET/CT) has been established in the diagnosis of lung cancer.
Jing Zhu +11 more
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Diagnostic accuracy of f18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography in the evaluation of carcinoma of unknown primary: A single-center study [PDF]
Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: The term carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) is not a single disease entity that it can be explicated as the recognition of metastasized tumor, in which the primary origin of the malignancy from an organ or site remains occult. The term refers
Abubaker Shahid +6 more
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Discordant Findings of Skeletal Metastasis Between Tc99m MDP Bone Scans and F18 FDG PET/CT Imaging for Advanced Breast and Lung Cancers—Two Case Reports and Literature Review [PDF]
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2007 Traditionally, Tc99m methyl diphosphate (MDP) bone scintigraphy provides high-sensitivity detection of skeletal metastasis from breast and lung cancers in regular follow-up.
Yu-Wen Chen +5 more
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American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2020 Purpose: Nuclear medicine imaging can provide a noninvasive means of distinguishing inflammatory mass lesions from oncologic intraocular tumors. Observation: We report a case of paraneoplastic ocular sarcoidosis with choroidal mass lesions that was ...
Elizabeth D. Marlow, M.D. +4 more
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Imaging Atherosclerosis With F18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2011 Coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S. Despite advances in diagnostic imaging and therapy, identification of patients at risk remains challenging. Anatomical imaging of luminal narrowing and determination of plaque size alone have proven to be inadequate ([1][1 ...
Joseph C. Wu, Patricia K. Nguyen
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Constrictive Pericarditis–A Cloak Camouflaging Lymphoma [PDF]
Hematology Reports, 2023 Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma presenting as a primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is extremely unusual. Having a predilection for the right side of the heart and accounting for 1% of all cardiac tumours, the difficulty in diagnosing the lesion, owing to the location
Delanthabettu Venugopala +5 more
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