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New findings in granuloma described from William Beaumont Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine

Published in Medical Imaging Law Weekly, July 22nd, 2008

Researchers detail in 'Granulomatous disease: is it a nuisance or an asset during PET/computed tomography evaluation of lung cancers,' new data in granuloma. In this recently published article, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To evaluate combined PET-computed tomography (CT) criteria for differentiating between granulomatous disease (GD) and malignancy (CA) in oncologic PET-CT studies. Sixty-two patients who were referred for fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) PET-CT evaluation of pulmonary lesion(s) without a history of concurrent infection were studied."

"PET-CT was performed 1.5 h after intravenous administration of 555 MBq 18F-FDG in the fasting state...

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