Utility of Iodine-131 hybrid SPECT-CT fusion imaging before high-dose radioiodine therapy in papillary thyroid carcinoma

Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-31

  Bal, Chandra ^a   Bhattacharya, Anish ^b   Venkataramarao, Sunil ^b   Mittal, Bhagwant ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Hybrid imaging; Iodine 131; SPECT CT; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISTANT METASTASIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 77953373940     PISSN: 09723919     EISSN: 09740244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.63599     Document Type: Article

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