Sestamibi scans are not all created equally

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 383-386

  Pappu, Suguna ^a   Donovan, Patricia ^a   Cheng, David ^a   Udelsman, Robert ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; COLLIMATOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PARATHYROID SCINTISCANNING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 16844379790     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.4.383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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