The limitations of gallium scintigraphy in the differentiation between benign and malignant salivary gland mass lesions

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 657-662

  Yoshikai, T ^a   Ishimaru, J ^a   Satoh, T ^a   Inokuchi, A ^a   Kudo, S ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Gallium scintigraphy; Salivary gland tumor

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GALLIUM; GALLIUM CITRATE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CITRATES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GALLIUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALIVARY GLAND NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1542676103     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200306000-00007     Document Type: Article

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