Assessment of hepatic functional regeneration after hepatectomy using 99mTc-GSA SPECT/CT fused imaging

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 780-788

  Yoshida, Morikatsu ^a   Shiraishi, Shinya ^a   Sakamoto, Fumi ^a   Beppu, Toru ^a,b   Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^a   Okabe, Hirohisa ^a   Tomiguchi, Seiji ^a   Baba, Hideo ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

99mTc GSA SPECT; Hepatectomy; Hepatic functional regeneration

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYL HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN TC99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BILIRUBIN; MACROSALB TC 99M; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DTPA-GALACTOSYL-HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CT SPECT SCANNER; DOSE LIVER FUNCTION RELATION; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER UPTAKE VALUE; LIVER WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; VOLUMETRY; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGENERATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; BILIRUBIN; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; REGENERATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84919866204     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 18646433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-014-0872-3     Document Type: Article

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