Is there a diagnostic role for bone scanning of patients with a high pretest probability for metastatic renal cell carcinoma?

Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 153-155

  Staudenherz, Anton ^a   Steiner, Birgit ^b   Puig, Stefan ^b   Kainberger, Franz ^b   Leitha, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bone scintigraphy; Osseous metastases; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0032893520     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19990101)85:1<153::aid-cncr21>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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