Etiology and significance of incidentally detected focal colonic uptake on FDG PET/CT

Background: Incidental colonic uptake of 18F-flurodeoxyglucose (FDG) is not an infrequent finding encountered during whole body positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. Almost all studies on this topic are in Western populations, which have a markedly different epidemiological profile for colorec...

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Main Authors: Nilendu C Purandare, Sachin K Gawade, Ameya D Puranik, Archi Agrawal, Sneha Shah, Venkatesh Rangarajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2012-10-01
Series:Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/0971-3026.111476