Successful internal mammary visualization with periareolar injections of Tc-99m antimony sulfur colloid in sentinel node breast lymphoscintigraphy

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 593-597

  Ting, Alan C C ^a   Cumarasingam, Brenda ^a   Szeto, Edwin R ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antimony sulfur colloid; Breast neoplasms; Lymphoscintigraphy; Periareolar; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY TECHNETIUM SULFIDE TC 99M; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASSAGE; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ANTIMONY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33748885767     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000238426.55533.f6     Document Type: Article

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