Recurrent follicular carcinoma oxyphilic cell type (Hurthle cell carcinoma) of the thyroid, imaging with iodine-131 and technetium-99m tetrofosmin before and after radiotherapy

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 71, Issue JAN., 1998, Pages 87-89

  Bomanji, J B ^a,b   Gacinovic, S ^a   Gaze, M N ^a   Costa, D C ^a   Ell, P J ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NECK METASTASIS; ONCOCYTOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID PARAFOLLICULAR CELL; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 0031963159     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.71.841.9534706     Document Type: Article

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