Compartmental body composition of cancer patients by measurement of total body nitrogen, potassium, and water

Metabolism

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1981, Pages 222-229

  Cohn, S H ^a,b   Gartenhaus, W ^a,b   Sawitsky, A ^a,b   Rai, K ^a,b   Zanzi, I ^a,b   Vaswani, A ^a,b   Ellis, K J ^a,b   Yasumura, S ^a,b   Cortes, E ^a,b   Vartsky, D ^a,b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; POTASSIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; WATER;

BODY COMPOSITION; CANCER PATIENT; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; NEOPLASMS; NITROGEN; POTASSIUM; WATER;

EID: 0019434152     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0026-0495(81)90145-1     Document Type: Article

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