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A rare case of mature teratoma. Has FDG PET/CT a role to play?
Authors describe a very rare case of mature teratoma with malignant transformation, preoperatively suggested by FDG PET/CT study. So the role of CT component in elucidating three embryonal components and hypermetabolism evident on PET part suggesting possible malignant transformation makes PET/CT a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174520 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.90265 |
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author | Mohapatra, Tushar Arora, Abhishek Srikant, K Snehalata, Kumar, Nandish |
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description | Authors describe a very rare case of mature teratoma with malignant transformation, preoperatively suggested by FDG PET/CT study. So the role of CT component in elucidating three embryonal components and hypermetabolism evident on PET part suggesting possible malignant transformation makes PET/CT a valuable modality in evaluation of these rare tumors |
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spelling | pubmed-32372122011-12-15 A rare case of mature teratoma. Has FDG PET/CT a role to play? Mohapatra, Tushar Arora, Abhishek Srikant, K Snehalata, Kumar, Nandish Indian J Nucl Med Case Report Authors describe a very rare case of mature teratoma with malignant transformation, preoperatively suggested by FDG PET/CT study. So the role of CT component in elucidating three embryonal components and hypermetabolism evident on PET part suggesting possible malignant transformation makes PET/CT a valuable modality in evaluation of these rare tumors Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3237212/ /pubmed/22174520 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.90265 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Mohapatra, Tushar Arora, Abhishek Srikant, K Snehalata, Kumar, Nandish A rare case of mature teratoma. Has FDG PET/CT a role to play? |
title | A rare case of mature teratoma. Has FDG PET/CT a role to play? |
title_full | A rare case of mature teratoma. Has FDG PET/CT a role to play? |
title_fullStr | A rare case of mature teratoma. Has FDG PET/CT a role to play? |
title_full_unstemmed | A rare case of mature teratoma. Has FDG PET/CT a role to play? |
title_short | A rare case of mature teratoma. Has FDG PET/CT a role to play? |
title_sort | rare case of mature teratoma. has fdg pet/ct a role to play? |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174520 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.90265 |
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