Comparison of Tl- with Ga single photon emission tomography in the diagnosis of head and neck cancer recurrence

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 187-191

  Yamamoto, Y ^a   Nishiyama, Y ^a   Toyama, Y ^a   Ohbayashi, Y ^a   Iwasaki, A ^b   Satoh, K ^b   Ohkawa, M ^b  

^a Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ^*  (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ga; Head and neck cancer; Recurrence; Tl

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM;

EID: 0036001120     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200202000-00013     Document Type: Article

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