Role of Tc99m MIBI SPECT in the assessment of treatment response in pharyngeal carcinoma

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1138, Issue , 2008, Pages 50-57

  Khawar, Ambreen ^a   Rafique, Muhammad Asif ^b   Jafri, Rafaqat Ali ^b   Saeed, Shabana ^a  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

CT; Pharyngeal carcinoma; Tc99m MIBI SPECT

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; MALE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PAROTID GLAND; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR BIOPSY; ARTICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX CANCER; RADIOGRAPHY; REMISSION; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53149108264     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1414.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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