Small bowel metastases from primary carcinoma of the lung: Presenting with gastrointestinal hemorrhage

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 161-163

  Sanli, Yasemin ^a,b   Adalet, Isik ^a   Turkmen, Cuneyt ^a   Kapran, Yersu ^a   Tamam, Muge ^a   Cantez, Sema ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Nuclear Medicine   (Turkey)

Author keywords

NSCLC; Small bowel metastases; Tc 99m RBC scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MELENA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SMALL BOWEL METASTASIS;

EID: 19744370668     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03027397     Document Type: Article

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