Technetium Tc 99m-labeled red blood cells in the preoperative diagnosis of cavernous hemangioma and other vascular orbital tumors

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 123, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1678-1683

  Polito, Ennio ^a,b   Burroni, Luca ^a   Pichierri, Patrizia ^a   Loffredo, Antonio ^a   Vattimo, Angelo G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CELL LABELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVAL BIOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HUMAN; LYMPHANGIOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT PSEUDOTUMOR; ORBIT TUMOR; PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 28944451305     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.123.12.1678     Document Type: Article

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