High-resolution, hand-held camera for sentinel-node detection

Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-52

  Scopinaro, Francesco ^a   Tofani, Anna ^b   Di Santo, Gianpaolo ^a   Di Pietro, Barbara ^a   Lombardi, Augusto ^c   Lo Russo, Marzia ^c   Soluri, Alessandro ^d   Massari, Roberto ^d   Trotta, Carlo ^d   Amanti, Claudio ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Imaging probe; Micrometastases; Radioguided surgery; Sentinel node biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMETASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 39749160951     PISSN: 10849785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2007.364     Document Type: Article

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