In-111 labeled octreotide imaging of a primary carcinoid lesion undetected by conventional imaging studies in a patient with 'chronic pancreatitis'

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 634-637

  Kummar, Shivaani ^a   Kim, Suzy L ^a   Halkar, Raghuveer K ^a   Galt, James R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER INJURY; MALE; METASTASIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; CARCINOID TUMOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MALIGNANT CARCINOID SYNDROME; OCTREOTIDE; PANCREATITIS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0029762819     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199608000-00009     Document Type: Article

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