Lymphoscintigraphy for sentinel node mapping using a hybrid SPECT/CT system

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1413-1420

  Even Sapir, Einat ^a,b   Lerman, Hedva ^a   Lievshitz, Genady ^a   Khafif, Avi ^a   Fliss, Dan M ^a   Schwartz, Arnon ^a   Gur, Eyal ^a   Skornick, Yehuda ^a   Schneebaum, Shlomo ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fusion; Head and neck tumor; Lymphoscintigraphy; Malignant melanoma; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; INJECTION SITE; LIMB; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; MELANOMA; MUCOSA; PENIS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRUNK; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0142150255     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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