Radiation safety with breast sentinel node biopsy

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 454-457

  Stratmann, Stacy L ^a   McCarty, Todd M ^a   Kuhn, Joseph A ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GEIGER MUELLER COUNTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJECTION SITE; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURGEON; TECHNIQUE;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 0033373477     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(99)00230-5     Document Type: Article

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