Evaluation of surgical gamma probes for radioguided sentinel node localisation

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1224-1231

  Tiourina, Tatiana ^a   Arenas, Bertjan ^a   Huysmans, Dyde ^a   Rutten, Harm ^a   Lemaire, Bea ^a   Muller, Sara ^b  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b Antoni Van Leeuwenhoekhuis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Sentinel node; Surgical gamma probe

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; ERGONOMICS; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MELANOMA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

EID: 0031663050     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050288     Document Type: Article

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