Posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma with peripheral replacement by white and brown adipocytes resulting in diagnostic fallacy from a false-positive 18F-2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose-positron emission tomography finding: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Ganglioneuroma is a rare tumor in the posterior mediastinum; fat-containing ganglioneuromas are rarely reported. The present case report documents a brown fat-containing, posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma, which has not been reported previously. Radiological examination, in particul...

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Autores principales: Yorita, Kenji, Yonei, Akihiro, Ayabe, Takanori, Nakada, Hiroshi, Nakashima, Ken, Fukushima, Tsuyoshi, Kataoka, Hiroaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25319096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-345

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25319096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-345

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