Diffuse intra-abdominal splenosis presenting as carcinomatosis exhibiting positron emitted tomography hypermetabolic activity()

• Splenosis can mimic carcinomatosis upon many imaging modalities. • History of splenectomy must be considered when evaluating carcinomatosis. • Scintigraphy is the preferred for confirming the presence of splenosis.

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Autores principales: Kellert, Brian, Caster, Michelle, Des Jean, Ryan, Vaccarello, Luis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3862292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24371695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gynor.2013.03.004
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spelling pubmed-38622922013-12-26 Diffuse intra-abdominal splenosis presenting as carcinomatosis exhibiting positron emitted tomography hypermetabolic activity() Kellert, Brian Caster, Michelle Des Jean, Ryan Vaccarello, Luis Gynecol Oncol Case Rep Case Report • Splenosis can mimic carcinomatosis upon many imaging modalities. • History of splenectomy must be considered when evaluating carcinomatosis. • Scintigraphy is the preferred for confirming the presence of splenosis. Elsevier 2013-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3862292/ /pubmed/24371695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gynor.2013.03.004 Text en © 2013 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Diffuse intra-abdominal splenosis presenting as carcinomatosis exhibiting positron emitted tomography hypermetabolic activity()
title Diffuse intra-abdominal splenosis presenting as carcinomatosis exhibiting positron emitted tomography hypermetabolic activity()
title_full Diffuse intra-abdominal splenosis presenting as carcinomatosis exhibiting positron emitted tomography hypermetabolic activity()
title_fullStr Diffuse intra-abdominal splenosis presenting as carcinomatosis exhibiting positron emitted tomography hypermetabolic activity()
title_full_unstemmed Diffuse intra-abdominal splenosis presenting as carcinomatosis exhibiting positron emitted tomography hypermetabolic activity()
title_short Diffuse intra-abdominal splenosis presenting as carcinomatosis exhibiting positron emitted tomography hypermetabolic activity()
title_sort diffuse intra-abdominal splenosis presenting as carcinomatosis exhibiting positron emitted tomography hypermetabolic activity()
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3862292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24371695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gynor.2013.03.004
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