Effect of high specific-activity sulfur colloid preparations on sentinel node count rates

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 92-95

  Krynyckyi, Borys R ^a,b   Zhang, Zhuang Yu ^a   Kim, Chun K ^a   Lipszyc, Helena ^a   Mosci, Karina ^a   Machac, Josef ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast Cancer; Lymphoscintigraphy; Specific Activity; Sulfur Colloid

Indexed keywords

NANOCOLL TC 99M; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 0036149483     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200202000-00003     Document Type: Article

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