Nodal Spread of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity Detected with PET-Tyrosine, MRI and CT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 897-901

  Braams, Jan W ^a   Pruim, Jan ^a   Nikkels, Peter G J ^a   Roodenburg, Jan L N ^a   Vaalburg, Willem ^a   Vermey, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CT; Head and neck cancer; L 1 11c tyrosine; Metastases; MRI; PET

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; TYROSINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TYROSINE;

EID: 0030160784     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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