Advantages of upright position imaging with medium-energy collimator for sentinel node lymphoscintigraphy in breast cancer patients

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-128

  Tsushima, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Takayama, Teruhiko ^b   Kizu, Hiroto ^b   Yamanaga, Takashi ^a   Shimonishi, Yoshihiro ^a   Kosakai, Kazuhisa ^a   Murai, Masami ^a   Onoguchi, Masahisa ^b  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Lymphoscintigraphy; Sentinel lymph node; Upright position; Visual detection

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM TIN COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

EID: 33947627097     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03033990     Document Type: Article

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