May positron emission tomography reveal ectopic or active thymus in preoperative evaluation of non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis?

BACKGROUND: In myasthenia gravis (MG) both native and ectopic thymic tissue containing germinal centers should show greater metabolism compared to adjacent tissues. We evaluated whether preoperative standardized uptake value (SUV) of 18fluoro-deoxy-glucose on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) might...

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Autores principales: Mineo, Tommaso Claudio, Ambrogi, Vincenzo, Schillaci, Orazio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4174284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25190316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-014-0146-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4174284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25190316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-014-0146-0

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