Differential uptake of Tl-201 by small-cell lung cancer in a patient with pneumoconiosis-related pulmonary nodules

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 687-690

  Shuke, Noriyuki ^a   Tonami, Norihisa ^b   Shintani, Hiromoto ^c   Kameyama, Tomiaki ^c   Watanabe, Naoto ^d   Yokoyama, Kunihiko ^b   Kinuya, Seigo ^b   Nakajima, Kenichi ^b   Michigishi, Takatoshi ^b   Aburano, Tamio ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Komatsu Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ga 67; Pneumoconiosis; Small Cell Lung Cancer; Tl 201

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67; THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GALLIUM; THALLIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; BONE TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032587460     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199909000-00010     Document Type: Article

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