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What approach should we take for the incidental finding of increased 18F-FDG uptake foci in the colon on PET/CT?

Fikri Selçuk Şimşek, Murat İspiroğlu, Bekir Taşdemir, Reyhan Köroğlu, Kemal Ünal, İbrahim Hanifi Özercan, Emre Entok, Duygu Kuşlu, Koray Karabulut

Nuclear Medicine Communications · 2015 · 13 citations · 26 references

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Abstract

Colonoscopic and histopathological examination of the increased foci of colonic F-FDG uptake incidentally detected at PET/CT seems to be a plausible approach.

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