Parathyroid Imaging: How Good Is It and How Should It Be Done?

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 206-211

  Kettle, Andrew G ^a   O'Doherty, Mike J ^a  

^a KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 11; IODINE 123; METHIONINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXPERIENCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IMAGING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METHODOLOGY; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID GLAND; PARATHYROID HYPERPLASIA; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKILL; TECHNIQUE; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CHORISTOMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33744542789     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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