The additional value of lymphatic mapping with routine SPECT/CT in unselected patients with clinically localized melanoma

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1018-1023

  Veenstra, Hidde J ^a   Vermeeren, Lenka ^b   Valdés Olmos, Renato A ^a   Nieweg, Omgo E ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOLL TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MACROSALB TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM TC 99M NANOCOLLOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC MAPPING; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; MELANOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862259570     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-011-2031-6     Document Type: Article

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