The sestamibi scan as a preoperative screening tool

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 812-815

  Norton, Kathryn S ^a   Johnson, Lester W ^a,b,c   Griffen, F Dean ^a   Burke, James ^a   Kennedy, Suzanne ^a   Aultman, Donnie ^a   Li, Benjamin D L ^a   Zibari, Gazi ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Lousiana State University Health Sciences Center   (United States)

^c E A Conway Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PARATHYROID HORMONE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PARATHYROID HYPERPLASIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ADENOMA; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CALCIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI;

EID: 0036729355     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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