Joint practice guidelines for radionuclide lymphoscintigraphy for sentinel node localization in oral/oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1915-1936

  Alkureishi, Lee W T ^a   Burak, Zeynep ^c   Alvarez, Julio A ^d   Ballinger, James ^e   Bilde, Anders ^f   Britten, Alan J ^g   Calabrese, Luca ^h   Chiesa, Carlo ⁱ   Chiti, Arturo ^j   De Bree, Remco ^k   Gray, Harry W ^b   Hunter, Keith ^l   Kovacs, Adorjan F ^m,n   Lassmann, Michael ^o   Leemans, C Rene ^k   Mamelle, Gerard ^p   McGurk, Mark ^q   Mortensen, Jann ^f   Poli, Tito ^r   Shoaib, Taimur ^b   Sloan, Philip ^s   Sorensen, Jens A ^m   Stoeckli, Sandro J ^m   Thomsen, Jorn B ^m   Trifiro, Giusepe ^h   Werner, Jochen ^t   Ross, Gary L ^u   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^e GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^g ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

ⁱ NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^j HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^k VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^m Goethe University Medical School ^*  (Switzerland)

ⁿ GOETHE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^p INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^q GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^s ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^t PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^u CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Carcinomas, squamous cell; Head and neck neoplasms; Radionuclide imaging; Sentinel lymph node biopsy; Technetium Tc 99mTc human serum albumin colloid

Indexed keywords

ALBURES; DISULFINE BLUE; ISOSULFAN BLUE; NANOCIS; NANOCOLL TC 99M; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; RHENIUM TECHNETIUM TC 99M; SENTISCINT; SERUM ALBUMIN TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FROZEN SECTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LACTATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MECHANICAL PROBE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROMETASTASIS; MORBIDITY; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SHIELD; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOACTIVITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 72149090118     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1248-0     Document Type: Review

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