Value and advantages of preoperative sentinel lymph node imaging with SPECT/CT in cervical cancer

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 295-302

  Klapdor, Ruediger ^a   Mücke, Johanna ^a   Schneider, Michael ^a   Länger, Florian ^a   Gratz, Klaus Friedrich ^a   Hillemanns, Peter ^a   Hertel, Hermann ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Sentinel technique; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84893763112     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IGC.0000000000000032     Document Type: Article

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