The role of bone SPET study in diagnosis of single vertebral metastases

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2 B, 2000, Pages 1115-1120

  Savelli, Giordano ^a   Chiti, Arturo ^a   Grasselli, Giacomo ^a   Maccauro, Marco ^b   Rodari, Marcello ^a   Bombardieri, Emilio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone metastasis; Bone scan; Single photon emission tomography; Spine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE SCINTISCANNING; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; X RAY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHOMA; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034055635     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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