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The clinical significance of incidental intra-abdominal findings on positron emission tomography performed to investigate pulmonary nodules

BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is a common cause of cancer-related death. Staging typically includes positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, in which(18)F-fluoro-2-dexoy-D-glucose (FDG) is taken up by cells proportional to metabolic activity, thus aiding in differentiating benign and malignant pulmona...

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Autores principales: Gill, Richdeep S, Perry, Troy, Abele, Jonathan T, Bédard, Eric LR, Schiller, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3283458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22284669
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-25