The use of scintimammography for detecting the recurrence of loco-regional breast cancer: histopathologically proven results

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-149

  Bongers, Vivian ^a   Perre, Cornelis ^a   de Hooge, Pieter ^a  

^a Department of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Recurrent breast cancer; Scintimammography; Tetrofosmin

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; NECK METASTASIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECURRENT CANCER; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 1542345005     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200402000-00009     Document Type: Article

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