Prostatic lymphatic drainage with sentinel nodes at the ventral abdominal wall visualized with SPECT/CT: A case series

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 71-73

  Vermeeren, Lenka ^a   Meinhardt, Willem ^b   Valdes Olmos, Renato A ^a  

^a Department of Nuclear Medicine ^*  (Netherlands)

^b ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emission computed; Prostate; Prostatic neoplasms; Sentinel lymph node biopsy; Single photon; Tomography

Indexed keywords

NANOCOLLOID TC 99M; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL WALL; AGED; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 76149105146     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181c7c07b     Document Type: Article

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