Multifaceted role of lymphatic mapping by SPECT/CT hybrid imaging in the multimodality management of patients with cancer

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1017-1018

  Basu, Sandip ^a   Alavi, Abass ^b  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHOGRAPHY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; LYMPH; NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67349144686     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1130-0     Document Type: Letter

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