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List of works by Francesco Bertagna

"Evaluation of the Sendai and 2012 International Consensus Guidelines based on cross-sectional imaging findings performed for the initial triage of mucinous cystic lesions of the pancreas: a single institution experience with 114 surgically treated

scientific article published on 13 October 2014

(18)F-FDG PET/CT detected a septic focus corresponding to a small periurethral abscess in a patient with bacteremia due to Enterococcus faecium.

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

(18)F-FDG PET/CT in staging and follow-up of adamantinoma.

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

1-23I-MIBG thyroid uptake: Implications for MIBG imaging of the heart

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

131I Whole-Body Scan Incidental Uptake Due to Spermatocele

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18F-FDG PET/CT Follow-up of Rosai-Dorfman Disease

scientific article published on 01 August 2015

18F-FDG PET/CT and extragastric MALT lymphoma: role of Ki-67 score and plasmacytic differentiation.

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18F-FDG PET/CT and primary hepatic MALT: a case series

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

18F-FDG PET/CT demonstrated renal and hepatic cyst infection in a patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

scientific article published on January 2016

18F-FDG PET/CT follow-up of follicular dendritic cell sarcoma

scientific article published on 25 October 2016

18F-FDG PET/CT in Pleural Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma.

scientific article published on January 2017

18F-FDG PET/CT in a patient affected by renal collecting duct (Bellini) carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

18F-FDG PET/CT in gastric MALT lymphoma: a bicentric experience

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

18F-FDG PET/CT in primary brain lymphoma.

scientific article published on 17 November 2017

18F-FDG PET/CT in solitary plasmacytoma: metabolic behavior and progression to multiple myeloma.

scientific article published on 19 August 2017

18F-FDG-PET/CT in Patients Affected by Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma with Positive Thyroglobulin Level and Negative 131I Whole Body Scan. It's Value Confirmed by a Bicentric Experience.

scientific article published on 23 May 2016

99mTc-MIBI imaging in thyroid nodules: is it useful?

scientific article published on 28 February 2014

A Papillary Thyroid Tumor Detected by (18)F-FDG-PET/CT in a Pediatric Patient with Cowden Syndrome.

scientific article published on 23 November 2012

A case of optic neuritis incidentally detected by somatostatin receptor scintigraphy.

scientific article published in October 2013

A false positive finding on the PET of somatostatin receptor due to a chondromyxoid fibroma

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A rare case of adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast detected by (18)F-FDG PET/CT.

scientific article published on 5 August 2014

A rare case of thyroid paraganglioma detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT

scientific article published on 19 February 2014

A thyroid incidentaloma detected by 18F-choline PET/CT.

scientific article published in April 2014

Absence of Urine Production Due to Renal Failure Enables Clear Visualization of Primary Urinary Bladder Carcinoma on 18F-FDG PET/CT

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

An Unusual Muscular Metastasis in a Patient Affected by Ileal Carcinoid Imaged With a 111In-Pentetreotide SPECT/CT Scan and Confirmed by Biopsy

scientific article published on August 1, 2011

An unusual case of metastatic extramammary Paget's disease of the vulva identified by 18F-FDG PET/CT.

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An unusual case of thymic carcinoid causing Cushing's syndrome due to ectopic ACTH secretion detected by (18)F-FDG PET/CT.

scientific article published on 31 December 2013

An unusual orbital localization of wegener granulomatosis detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT.

scientific article published in August 2014

Attenuation correction in myocardial perfusion imaging affects the assessment of infarct size in women with previous inferior infarct

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Comment on Minamimoto: incidental focal FDG uptake in heart is a lighthouse for considering cardiac screening.

scientific article published on 29 June 2013

Comment on Rosenbaum-Krumme et al.: (18)F-FDG PET/CT changes therapy management in high-risk DTC after first radioiodine therapy.

scientific article published on 18 July 2012

Comparison Between 99mTc-Sulesomab and 18F-FDG PET/CT in a Patient With Suspected Prosthetic Joint Infection.

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Comparison between the summed difference score and myocardial blood flow measured by 13N-ammonia.

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Comparison of diagnostic performances of three different software packages in detecting coronary artery disease

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Comprehensive geriatric assessment is an essential tool to support treatment decisions in elderly patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a prospective multicenter evaluation in 173 patients by the Lymphoma Italian Foundation (FIL)

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Congenital Triple Kidney in a Patient Evaluated by F-18 FDG PET/CT for Oncologic Reason

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Could 18F-FDG PET Be a Diagnostic Tool for Hemochromatosis?

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Detection of post-exercise stunning by early gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: results from the IAEA multi-center study

scientific article published on 12 September 2014

Diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG-PET and PET/CT in the differential diagnosis between malignant and benign pleural lesions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on January 2014

Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in Male Breast Cancer: Results From a Bicentric Population.

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Diagnostic and clinical significance of F-18-FDG-PET/CT thyroid incidentalomas.

scientific article published on 17 August 2012

Diagnostic performance of Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography for the diagnosis of osteomyelitis related to diabetic foot: a systematic review and a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 29 July 2013

Diagnostic performance of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the assessment of pleural abnormalities in cancer patients: a systematic review and a meta-analysis

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Diagnostic performance of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the postchemotherapy management of patients with seminoma: systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 15 May 2014

Diagnostic role of radiolabelled choline PET or PET/CT in hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 03 September 2014

Differentiated Thyroid Cancer lymph-node relapse. Role of adjuvant radioactive iodine therapy after lymphadenectomy.

scientific article published on 14 December 2016

Early and late adverse effects of radioiodine for pediatric differentiated thyroid cancer.

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Emerging role of Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in patients with retroperitoneal fibrosis: a systematic review.

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F18-FDG PET/CT and Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: A Critical and Still Debated Issue

scientific article published on May 3, 2011

F18-FDG-PET/CT standardised uptake value threshold in discriminating benign vs. malignant lesions. Doubts and certainties in the era of evidence-based medicine

scientific article published on March 16, 2011

F18-FDG-PET/CT thyroid incidentalomas and their benign or malignant nature: a critical and debated issue.

scientific article published on 23 November 2010

F18-FDG-PET/CT thyroid incidentalomas: a wide retrospective analysis in three Italian centres on the significance of focal uptake and SUV value.

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Factors influencing the sensitivity of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the detection of infective endocarditis.

scientific article published on 3 May 2013

Final results of a phase 2A study for the treatment of metastatic neuroendocrine tumors with a fixed activity of 90Y-DOTA-D-Phe1-Tyr3 octreotide

scientific article published on 21 October 2011

Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography standardized uptake value in discriminating benign versus malignant lesions: an open and debated issue.

scientific article published in June 2011

Focal thyroid incidental uptake detected by ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography. Meta-analysis on prevalence and malignancy risk.

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

Impact of attenuation correction and gated acquisition in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: results of the multicentre SPAG (SPECT Attenuation Correction vs Gated) study

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Incidental 11C-choline PET/CT brain uptake due to meningioma in a patient studied for prostate cancer: correlation with MRI and imaging fusion.

scientific article published in November 2013

Incidental 11C-choline PET/CT uptake due to esophageal carcinoma in a patient studied for prostate cancer.

scientific article published in October 2014

Incidental 18F-FDG PET/CT bilateral breast uptake due to carcinoma.

scientific article published in January 2016

Incidental Unilateral Tuberculous Sacroiliitis Detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT in a Patient with Abdominal Tuberculosis

scientific article published on January 2017

Incidental meningioma detected by using 99mTc-MIBI SPECT/CT.

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Incidental pituitary adenoma detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT and 18F-choline PET/CT in the same patient

scientific article published on 08 August 2017

Incidental thyroid 99mTc-MDP uptake in a patient affected by differentiated thyroid cancer

scientific article published in January 2016

Incidental uptake of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose in the prostate gland. Systematic review and meta-analysis on prevalence and risk of malignancy

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Increased risk of second malignancy in pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous tumors: Review of the literature

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Incremental Diagnostic Value of F-18 FDG PET/CT Over MRI in a Pediatric Patient With Suspected Hepatoblastoma and Histologic Diagnosis of Focal Nodular Hyperplasia

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

Mesenteric Panniculitis Demonstrated on 18F-FDG PET/CT.

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Multicentric study on ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/CT breast incidental uptake in patients studied for non-breast malignant purposes

scientific article published on 11 October 2014

Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) in a Patient Affected by Metastatic Breast Cancer with Neuroendocrine Differentiation.

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Positron emission tomography/computed tomography for diagnosis of prosthetic valve endocarditis: suggestions to increase diagnostic accuracy.

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Possible role of F18-FDG-PET/CT in differentiating benign lesions versus malignant after indeterminate fine-needle aspiration cytology. a wider and still controversial issue: exclusion of malignancy in thyroid nodules with indeterminate fine-needle

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Post-treatment Evaluation of Paranasal Sinuses After Treatment of Sinonasal Neoplasms

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

Prevalence and clinical significance of incidental F18-FDG breast uptake: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 13 December 2013

Prevalence and risk of malignancy of focal incidental uptake detected by fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the parotid gland: a meta-analysis.

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Pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma: 18F-FDG PET/CT and CT findings in 28 patients.

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Residual brain viability, evaluated by (99m)Tc-ECD SPECT, in patients with suspected brain death and with confounding clinical factors.

scientific article published in October 2009

Response to Treatment in a Patient With Gouty Arthritis and Tophi Evaluated by Fluorine 18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

Right atrial metastasis of GIST detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT

scientific article published on 12 November 2016

Role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients affected by Langerhans cell histiocytosis

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography for therapy evaluation of patients with large-vessel vasculitis.

scientific article published on April 2010

Role of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in evaluating breast mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma: A case series.

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Role of ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in patients affected by differentiated thyroid carcinoma, high thyroglobulin level, and negative ¹³¹I scan: review of the literature.

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Searching for indicators of malignancy in pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms: the value of 18FDG-PET confirmed.

scientific article published on 3 July 2012

Squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil incidentally detected by 18F-choline PET/CT.

scientific article published in January 2015

The dark side of the moon of coronary vasodilation

scientific article published on 01 July 2016

The role of 18F-FDG-PET and PET/CT in patients with sarcoidosis: an updated evidence-based review

scientific article published on May 2014

The strange case of the [13N]NH3

scientific article published on 01 April 2016

The value of attenuation correction by hybrid SPECT/CT imaging on infarct size quantification in male patients with previous inferior myocardial infarct

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Therapeutic lateral neck dissection in well-differentiated thyroid cancer: Analysis on factors predicting distribution of positive nodes and prognosis.

scientific article published on 30 September 2017

Thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology: prospective comparison between 18F-FDG-PET/CT, multiparametric neck ultrasonography, 99mTc-MIBI scintigraphy and histology.

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

To the editor: Long-term follow-up of patients with metastatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Usefulness of (18)F-FDG PET/CT in Evaluating Disease Activity at Different Times in a Patient With Chronic Periaortitis.

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Usefulness of (18)F-FDG-PET/CT in Evaluating a Brainstem Glioma in an Adult Patient with Neurofibromatosis Type 1.

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Usefulness of whole-body fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1: a systematic review

scientific article published on 09 September 2012

Value of gated SPECT in the analysis of regional wall motion of the interventricular septum after coronary artery bypass grafting

scientific article published on 19 June 2004

[¹⁸F]FDG-PET/CT in patients affected by retroperitoneal fibrosis: a bicentric experience.

scientific article published on 16 March 2012

¹⁸F-FDG uptake as a prognostic variable in primary differentiated thyroid cancer incidentally detected by PET/CT: a multicentre study

scientific article published on 30 April 2014