Local vascular access of radioprotein injected subcutaneously in healthy subjects and patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 789-796

  Pain, Simon J ^a   Barber, Robert W ^a   Ballinger, James R ^a   Solanki, Chandra K ^a   Mortimer, Peter S ^b   Purushotham, Arnie D ^a   Peters, A Michael ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer related lymphedema; Human IgG; Lymphoscintigraphy

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G IN 111; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INDIUM; TECHNETIUM; TECHNETIUM TC 99M IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; VENOUS BLOOD; ARM; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HAND; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; SCINTISCANNING; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; VASCULARIZATION;

ARM; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LYMPHEDEMA; PROTEIN BINDING; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 2642544216     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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