Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography/Computed Tomographyfor Sentinel Node Mapping in Breast Cancer

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-33

  Husarik, Daniela B ^a   Steinert, Hans C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOLL TC 99M;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845196288     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2006.08.001     Document Type: Review

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