Ultrasound-Guided Internal Radiotherapy Using Yttrium-90-Glass Microspheres for Liver Malignancies

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 958-963

  Tian, Jia He ^a   Xu, Bai Xuan ^a   Zhang, Jin Ming ^a   Dong, Bao Wei ^a   Liang, Ping ^a   Wang, Xiang Dong ^a  

^a Great Wall Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Intratumoral delivery; Liver malignancy; Radionuclide therapy; Yttrium 90 glass microspheres

Indexed keywords

GLASS; MICROSPHERE; YTTRIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; GLASS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSPHERES; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0030161637     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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