Lymph node metastasis from breast cancer diagnosed by F-18 FDG whole-body PET (case report)

Breast Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 165-168

  Fujii, Hirofumi ^a,c   Enomoto, Kohji ^b   Ikeda, Tadashi ^b   Hojo, Takashi ^b   Yasuda, Seiei ^c   Ide, Michiru ^c   Shohtsu, Akira ^c   Kameyama, Kaori ^a   Kubo, Atsushi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (Japan)

^c HIMEDIC Imaging Center at Lake Yamanaka   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; F 18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG); Lymph node metastasis; Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0034565462     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02967451     Document Type: Article

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