Treatment efficacy of combined biphosphonates and 186Re-HEDP treatment in cancer patients with bone metastases

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1392-1393

  Koutsikos, John ^a   Leondi, Anastasia ^a  

^a ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ETIDRONIC ACID RE 186; SAMARIUM 153; ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

ADULT; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIPHOSPHONATES; ETIDRONIC ACID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RHENIUM;

EID: 45049087273     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-008-0759-4     Document Type: Letter

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