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When a PET Scan shows hypermetabolic activity?
hypermetabolic activity posterior to the bladder. SUV is 6.5.
What is hypermetabolic activity ranging up to 6.46 on PET Scan?
Hypermetabolic activity ranging up to 6.46 on a PET scan can mean one or two things. It can either mean you have cancer or an infection.
What is right lower paratracheal lymp nodemildly hypermetabolic?
hyper-metabolic lymph node?
What is hypermetabolic lymphadenopathy?
Hypermetabolic indicates that the lymph nodes are using more sugar than normal. This is a critical diagnosis because most cancer cells have a higher metabolic rate than normal cells. Lymphadenopathy just means that the lymph nodes in question are swollen or enlarged.
What do they mean when they say that they didn't find any hypermetabolic areas?
A hypermetabolic area is one that is using nutrients faster than others. The clinical meaning of this finding depends on the reason the study was done. Your health care provider has information on the type of study and its purpose that you did not provide in your question.
What does hypermetabolic mean on a PET Scan?
It means that the tissue is absorbing the radioactive sugar they injected you with prior to the PET scan. Different tissues absorb this at different rates and hypermetabolic means that the target tissue is absorbing the sugar at rates above the norm (as happens with infected/inflammed tissue and cancer cells).
Diff between pancreatic fluid collection and pancreatic pseudocyst?
Pancreatic pseudocyst is a type of pancreatic fluid collection. There are many different types of pancreatic fluid collections: simple pancreatic cyst (congenital), Walled off Pancreatic Necrosis ( WOPN ), acute pseudocyst, chronic pseudocyst, pancreatic abscess, and cystic neoplasms, for example.
What is a Doctor Who specialized in pancreatic cancer?
A Pancreatic Oncologist.
How does pancreatic juice get into the alimentary canal of a frog?
The pancreatic juice enters the small intestine through the pancreatic ducts
What is the scientific name for pancreatic cancer?
The scientific name for pancreatic cancer is pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
Why is morphine contraindicated for a patient having surgery for pancreatic cancer?
cause spasm of the pancreatic ducts
What is pancreatic acini?
A pancreatic acinar cell (plural acini) is part of the exocrine pancreas and is responsible for the production of pancreatic enzymes, such as lipase.
