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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Autores principales: Mohapatra, Tushar, Arora, Abhishek, Srikant, K, Snehalata, Kumar, Nandish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
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.
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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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