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Integrated PET/CT of salivary gland type carcinoma of the lung in 12 patients.

Jeong SY, Lee KS, Han J, Kim BT, Kim TS, Shim YM, Kim J

Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50, Ilwon-Dong, Kangnam-Ku, Seoul 135-710, Korea.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study was to show the integrated 18F-FDG PET/CT findings of salivary gland type carcinomas of the lung. CONCLUSION: Salivary gland type carcinomas of the lung appear as airway tumors with variable CT morphologies and show different patterns and extents of FDG uptake on PET images according to their grades of differentiation.

Published 21 November 2007 in AJR Am J Roentgenol, 189(6): 1407-13.
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