Improved body-outline imaging technique for localization of sentinel lymph nodes in breast surgery

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1181-1183

  Clarke, Elizabeth ^a   Notghi, Alp ^a   Harding, Keith ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast tumor; Lymph node imaging; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

COBALT 57; DYE; GADOLINIUM 153; NANOCOLL; NANOCOLL TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TECHNIQUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN;

EID: 0036731989     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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