False-positive findings on F-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma and extensive sinusitis

Clin Nucl Med. 2005 Jan;30(1):62-3. doi: 10.1097/00003072-200501000-00024.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diagnostic Errors / prevention & control*
  • False Positive Reactions
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Humans
  • Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography / methods
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Sinusitis / diagnosis
  • Sinusitis / diagnostic imaging*

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18