68Ga-DOTATATE-PET/CT positive metastatic lymph node in a 69-year-old woman with merkel cell carcinoma

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1108-1111

  Schneider, Christina ^a   Schlaak, Max ^b   Bludau, Marc ^c   Markiefka, Birgid ^a   Schmidt, Matthias C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Skin Cancer Center   (Germany)

^c General Visceral and Cancer Surgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

68Ga Dotatate PET CT; Merkel cell carcinoma; neuroendocrine tumor

Indexed keywords

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; TETRAXETAN OCTREOTATE[DEXTRO 1 PHENYLALANINE 3 TYROSINE] GA 68; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 68GA DOTATATE; 68GA-DOTATATE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SKIN TUMOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84867856752     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318266d3b3     Document Type: Article

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