Diagnostic and therapeutic management of carcinoma of unknown primary: Radio-imaging investigations

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 10, 2006, Pages

  Jerusalem, G ^a   Rorive, A ^a   Ancion, G ^a   Hustinx, R ^a   Fillet, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM METASTASIS; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 33749648069     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdl255     Document Type: Article

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