Scintigraphic visualization of glossal thyroid tissue during the follow-up of thyroid cancer patients

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 911-914

  Zanotti Fregonara, Paolo ^a   Hindié, Elif ^b   Keller, Isabelle ^c   Calzada Nocaudie, Marie ^c   Devaux, Jean Yves ^c  

^a DIF   (France)

^b SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

I 131 scintigraphy; Lingual thyroid; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RECOMBINANT THYROTROPIN; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CANCER PATIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC TISSUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; STIMULATION; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TONGUE; TONGUE DISEASE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LINGUAL THYROID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 36348951447     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31815976f6     Document Type: Review

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