Impact of131I SPECT/spiral CT on nodal staging of differentiated thyroid carcinoma at the first radioablation

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-23

  Schmidt, Daniela ^a   Szikszai, Attila ^a   Linke, Rainer ^a   Bautz, Werner ^a   Kuwert, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hybrid imaging; Radioiodine; Registration; SPECT CT; Thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID CARCINOMA; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; ABLATION TECHNIQUE; LYMPH NODE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; THYROID TUMOR; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 58249123278     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.052746     Document Type: Article

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