Diagnostic value of thallium-201 chloride single-photon emission computerized tomography in differentiating tumor recurrence from radiation injury after gamma knife surgery for metastatic brain tumors

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 266-271

  Serizawa, Toru ^a   Saeki, Naokatsu ^b   Higuchi, Yoshinori ^b   Ono, Junichi ^b   Matsuda, Shinji ^b   Sato, Makoto ^b   Yanagisawa, Masamichi ^b   Iuchi, Toshihiko ^b   Nagano, Osamu ^b   Yamaura, Akira ^b  

^a CHIBA CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gamma knife surgery; Metastatic brain tumor; Radiation injury; Single photon emission computerized tomography; Thallium 201; Tumor recurrence

Indexed keywords

STEROID; THALLIUM CHLORIDE TL 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM; THALLIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SECOND CANCER;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RADIATION INJURIES; THALLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 13744256150     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2005.102.s_supplement.0266     Document Type: Article

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