Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by (18)F-FDG PET/CT

Diagnosis of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis was done by exclusion in a 54-year-old woman with dyspnoea, chest pain, cough and fatigue showing positivity of 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro-D-glucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography total body imaging which turned out to normal after six and...

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Autores principales: Carbone, Roberto G., Murdaca, Giuseppe, Negrini, Simone, Penna, Daniele, Puppo, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Nuclear Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32099588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.01.022
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Murdaca, Giuseppe
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Penna, Daniele
Puppo, Francesco
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description Diagnosis of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis was done by exclusion in a 54-year-old woman with dyspnoea, chest pain, cough and fatigue showing positivity of 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro-D-glucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography total body imaging which turned out to normal after six and eighteen months of prednisone and pirfernidone treatment.
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spelling pubmed-70290482020-02-25 Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by (18)F-FDG PET/CT Carbone, Roberto G. Murdaca, Giuseppe Negrini, Simone Penna, Daniele Puppo, Francesco Radiol Case Rep Nuclear Medicine Diagnosis of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis was done by exclusion in a 54-year-old woman with dyspnoea, chest pain, cough and fatigue showing positivity of 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro-D-glucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography total body imaging which turned out to normal after six and eighteen months of prednisone and pirfernidone treatment. Elsevier 2020-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7029048/ /pubmed/32099588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.01.022 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
title Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
title_full Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
title_fullStr Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
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title_short Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
title_sort diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by (18)f-fdg pet/ct
topic Nuclear Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029048/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.01.022
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