Hybrid SPECT/CT imaging of sentinel nodes in esophageal cancer: First results

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 369-373

  Tsai, Jon A ^a   Celebioglu, Fuat ^a   Lindblad, Mats ^a   Lörinc, Esther ^a   Nilsson, Magnus ^a   Olsson, Annie ^b   Lundell, Lars ^a   Axelsson, Rimma ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Sentinel node; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; ENDOSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PROBES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURGERY;

ESOPHAGEAL CANCER; INTRA-OPERATIVE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NEOADJUVANT TREATMENT; OPERATING FIELDS; SENTINEL NODE; SPECT/CT; SPECT/CT IMAGING;

DISEASES;

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

AGED; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84880664956     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0284185113475924     Document Type: Article

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