Periprosthetic seroma with false-positive FDG PET-CT reactive nodes mistaken for metastases in a patient previously treated of metastasic melanoma. Potential source of diagnostic errors

FDG PET/CT is believed to be crucial in oncology, but its limited specificity represents a challenge. Prosthetic meshes used for repair abdominal defects may lead to false-positives FDG PET/CT uptake, over staging malignancies and inducing inappropriate treatments. A false-positive FDG PET/CT uptake...

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Autores principales: Gomez Portilla, Alberto, Onaindia, Eleder, Larrañaga, Maitane, López de Heredia, Eduardo, Echenagusía, Victor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28738238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2017.07.001

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28738238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2017.07.001

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