The clinical impact of 18F–FDG PET/CT in extracranial pediatric germ cell tumors
- 29 June 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Pediatric Radiology
- Vol. 47 (11) , 1508-1513
Abstract
Extracranial germ cell tumors are an uncommon pediatric malignancy with limited information on the clinical impact of 18F–fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in the literature.Keywords
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