"Witch's milk" and 99mTc-pertechnetate uptake in neonatal breast tissue: An uncommon but not unexpected finding

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 586-587

  Jain, Sachin ^a   Sharma, Punit ^a   Mukherjee, Anirban ^a   Bal, Chandrasekhar ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

99mTc perchnetate; Breast; Meckel scintigraphy; Neonate; Witch?s milk

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST MILK; CASE REPORT; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MECKEL SCINTIGRAPHY; NEWBORN; SCINTIGRAPHY;

BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MILK, HUMAN; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M;

EID: 84880336952     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318292aaba     Document Type: Article

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