Lymphatic mapping using SPECT/CT in vulvar carcinoma

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 950-952

  Freudenberg, Lutz S ^a   Görtz, Ellen ^a   Hagen, Christiane ^b   Harms, Edgar ^a   Koska, Walter W ^a   Marlowe, Robert J ^c   Shadouh, Shawqi ^b   Stock, Clemens ^a  

^a ZRN Grevenbroich ^*  (Germany)

^b Department of Pathology   (Germany)

^c Spencer Fontayne Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography (CT); lymph node metastasis; scintigraphy; sentinel lymph node (SLN); single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); SPECT CT; vulvar carcinoma

Indexed keywords

COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MICROMETASTASIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VULVA CARCINOMA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78649679465     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181f9de96     Document Type: Article

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