Quantification of radio-tracer uptake in axillary lymph nodes using breast specific gamma imaging (BSGI): Benign radio-tracer extravasation versus uptake secondary to breast cancer

Breast Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 579-582

  Werner, John ^a   Rapelyea, Jocelyn A ^a   Yost, Kristen G ^a   Brem, Rachel F ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast specific gamma imaging; Lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SPECIFIC GAMMA IMAGING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVASATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70449643099     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2009.00834.x     Document Type: Article

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