Comparison of barium swallow, CT and thallium-201 SPECT in evaluating responses of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma to preoperative chemoradiotherapy

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 583-591

  Nakahara, Tadaki ^a   Togawa, Takashi ^b   Nagata, Matsuo ^b   Kikuchi, Kazunori ^b   Hatano, Kazuo ^b   Yui, Nobuharu ^b   Kubo, Atsushi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Esophageal carcinoma; Preoperative chemoradiotherapy; SPECT; Thallium 201; Therapeutic effect

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; NEDAPLATIN; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIUM MEAL; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242409594     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03006672     Document Type: Article

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