A visual and semi-quantitative assessment of 99mTc-EDDA /HYNIC-TOC scintigraphy in differentiation of solitary pulmonary nodules

Nuclear Medicine Review

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-150

  Płachcińska, Anna ^a   Mikołajczak, Renata ^b   Kozak, Józef ^c   Rzeszutek, Katarzyna ^d   Kuśmierek, Jacek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^c N Copernicus Hospital   (Poland)

^d Ctr for Treatm of Pulmon Diseases   (Poland)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Partial volume effect; Receptor scintigraphy; Solitary pulmonary module; Somatostatin analogue

Indexed keywords

HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVE; NICOTINAMIDE DERIVATIVE; OCTREOTIDE[3 TYROSINE]; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MELANOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 12344287012     PISSN: 15069680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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