Evaluation of the response to selective internal radiation therapy in patients with hepatocellular cancer according to pretreatment 99mTc-MAA uptake

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 252-255

  Kucuk, Ozlem ^a   Soydal, Cigdem ^a   Araz, Mine ^a   Ozkan, Elgin ^a   Aras, Gulseren ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

99mTc macroaggregated albumin; hepatocellular cancer; selective internal radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; SELECTIVE INTERNAL RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875225680     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31828162e8     Document Type: Article

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