Radiation doses to staff involved in sentinel node operations for breast cancer

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 196-202

  Klausen, Thomas Levin ^a   Chakera, A H ^a   Friis, E ^a   Rank, F ^a   Hesse, B ^a   Holm, S ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

99mTc; Lymph node; Melanoma; Radiation exposure; Radiolabelled colloids; Thermoluminescent dosimetry tablets

Indexed keywords

NANOCOLL; NANOCOLL TC 99M; RADIOISOTOPE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; HAND; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOACTIVITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

EID: 21644474254     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2005.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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