Selective axillary surgery in breast cancer patients based on positron emission tomography with 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose: Not yet!

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 171-173

  Guller, Ulrich ^a   Nitzsche, Egbert U ^b   Schirp, Udo ^b   Viehl, Carsten T ^a   Torhorst, Joachim ^c   Moch, Holger ^c   Langer, Igor ^a   Marti, Walter R ^a   Oertli, Daniel ^a   Harder, Felix ^a   Zuber, Markus ^a  

^a Department of Surgery ^*  (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Nuclear Medicine   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

18F fluoro 2 deoxy D glucose; Invasive breast cancer; Micrometastases; Positron emission tomography; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036167397     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013828710301     Document Type: Article

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