Thallium-201 SPECT in the diagnosis of head and neck cancer

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 873-879

  Valdés Olmos, Renato A ^a   Balm, Alfons J M ^a   Hilgers, Frans J M ^a   Koops, Wim ^a   Loftus, Barbara M ^a   Tan, I Bing ^a   Muller, Sara H ^a   Hoefnagel, Cornelis A ^a   Gregor, Reinhold T ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; SPECT; Thallium 201 chloride

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0005739384     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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