Evaluation of the sentinel lymph node combining SPECT/CT with the planar image and its importance for the surgical act;Valoración del ganglio centinela combinando SPECT/TAC con la imagen planar y su importancia para el acto quirúrgico

Revista Espanola de Medicina Nuclear

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 331-337

  Vidal Sicart, S ^a   Roberto Brouwer, O ^b   Valdes Olmos R A ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lymphoscintigraphy; Sentinel node; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGEON;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 80051932933     PISSN: 02126982     EISSN: 1578200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.remn.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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