Procedure guideline for thyroid scintigraphy: 1.0

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1264-1266

  Becker, David ^b   Charkes, N David ^b   Dworkin, Howard ^b   Hurley, James ^b   McDougall, I Ross ^b   Price, David ^b   Royal, Henry ^b   Sarkar, Salil ^b   Smith, Wendy ^a  

^a Society of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

procedure guideline; thyroid scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123; IODINE 131; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; CHILD; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTIGRAPHY; SHORT SURVEY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; RADIATION DOSAGE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 0029757171     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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