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PET evaluation of spinal cord tumor using 11C-methionine
S Higano1, F Shishido, M Nagashima
1Department of Radiology, Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels-Akita, Japan.
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
A cervical cord tumor was examined with positron emission tomography using L-methyl-[11C]methionine. The radioactive tracer accumulated in the solid parts (but not in the associated cysts) of the neoplasm, which at histology was found to be an ependymoma.