Granulomatous Prostatitis After Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Instillation Therapy: A Potential Cause of Incidental F-18 FDG Uptake in the Prostate Gland on F-18 FDG PET/CT in Patients with Bladder Cancer

PURPOSE: This study aimed to evaluate the possibility that Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-induced granulomatous prostatitis can be a potential cause of benign F-18 FDG uptake. METHODS: A total of 395 bladder cancer patients who underwent F-18 FDG PET/CT (PET/CT) were retrospectively evaluated. Patie...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nucl Med Mol Imaging
Hauptverfasser: Kim, Choon-Young, Lee, Sang-Woo, Choi, Seock Hwan, Son, Seung Hyun, Jung, Ji-hoon, Lee, Chang-Hee, Jeong, Shin Young, Ahn, Byeong-Cheol, Lee, Jaetae
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4762869/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26941857
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13139-015-0364-y
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