Routine preoperative 123I-MIBG scintigraphy for patients with phaeochromocytoma is not necessary

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 393, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 725-727

  Mihai, Radu ^a   Gleeson, Fergus ^b   Roskell, Derek ^a   Parker, Andrew ^a   Sadler, Greg ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

False positive; MIBG scan; Phaeochromocytoma

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; I META IODO BENZYL GUANETIDINE; METADRENALIN; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL SCINTISCANNING; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE URINE LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LUNG CYST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 51449088636     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-008-0387-2     Document Type: Article

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