What is the value of emission tomography studies in patients with a primary glioblastoma multiforme treated by 192Ir brachytherapy?

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 345-349

  Koot, R W ^a,c   Habraken, J B A ^a   Hulshof, M C C M ^a   Paans, A M J ^b   Bosch, D A ^a   Pruim, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

192Iridium; 201Thallium SPECT; Brachytherapy; Glioblastoma multiforme; L 1 11C tyrosine PET; Survival

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIOACTIVITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TYROSINE;

EID: 41049114145     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-007-1494-5     Document Type: Article

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