Regional lymph node involvement in T1 papillary thyroid carcinoma: A bicentric prospective SPECT/CT study

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1462-1466

  Mustafa, Mona ^a,d   Kuwert, Torsten ^b   Weber, Kathrin ^a   Knesewitsch, Peter ^a   Negele, Thomas ^c   Haug, Alexander ^a   Linke, Rainer ^b   Bartenstein, Peter ^a   Schmidt, Daniela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Martha und Maria Helfen Krankenhaus Munchen   (Germany)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hybrid imaging; Microcarcinoma; SPECT CT; Thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956185542     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-010-1408-2     Document Type: Article

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