Intense accumulation of Tc-99m MDP in pericardial metastasis from breast cancer

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 173-174

  Kawase, Takatsugu ^a   Fujii, Hirofumi ^c   Nakahara, Tadaki ^a   Shigematsu, Naoyuki ^a   Kubo, Atsushi ^a   Kosuda, Shigeru ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone scintigraphy; Breast cancer; Dystrophic calcification; Pericardium

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART METASTASIS; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIUM; RARE DISEASE; BONE; BREAST TUMOR; HEART TUMOR; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

BONE AND BONES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE;

EID: 66849129151     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31819672b9     Document Type: Article

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