Whole body radiography for bone survey screening of cancer and myeloma patients

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 916-922

  Mulligan, Michael ^a   Smith, Stacy ^a   Talmi, Danit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Metastatic disease; Screening; Whole body radiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOLYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 57049179615     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: 15324192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07357900801965059     Document Type: Article

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