Resection of a solitary pulmonary metastasis from prostatic Adenocarcinoma misdiagnosed as a Bronchocele: usefulness of 18F-choline and 18F-FDG PET/CT.

J Thorac Oncol

*Department of Nuclear Medicine; †Department of Radiation Therapy, ‡Radiology Department, and **Department of Urology, St. Louis Hospital, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France; and §Department of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Bichat Hospital, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France.

Published: December 2014

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