Lobar extent of pulmonary lymphangitic carcinomatosis: Tl-201 chloride and Tc-99m MIBI scintigraphic findings

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 726-729

  Kashitani, Naoko ^a   Eda, Ryosuke ^a   Masayoshi, Toyohisa ^a   Takeyama, Hiroyasu ^a   Makihara, Shigeki ^a   Kitamura, Yasuhiro ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshiki ^a   Hiraki, Yoshio ^b  

^a NATIONAL SANYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM CHLORIDE TL 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOMATOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TUMOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THALLIUM; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029786566     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199609000-00011     Document Type: Article

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