Usefulness of thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography to quantify the malignancy grade of brain tumors

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 434-439

  Igase, Keiji ^a   Oka, Yoshihisa ^a   Ohta, Shinsuke ^a   Murakami, Yoshikazu ^a   Kumon, Yoshiaki ^a   Sakaki, Saburo ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

benign brain tumor; high grade astrocytoma; low grade astrocytoma; metastatic brain tumor; single photon emission computed tomography; thallium 201

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030035925     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.434     Document Type: Article

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