Usefulness of a solid-state gamma camera for sentinel node identification in patients with breast cancer

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 12-17

  Motomura, Kazuyoshi ^a   Noguchi, Atsushi ^a   Hashizume, Terumi ^a   Hasegawa, Yoshihisa ^a   Komoike, Yoshifumi ^a   Inaji, Hideo ^a   Saida, Toshihide ^b   Koyama, Hiroki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Bussan Medical INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Sentinel node; Sentinel node biopsy; Solid state gamma camera

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 11344268052     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20162     Document Type: Article

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