BACKGROUND Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy originally was described as a means of
identifying lymph node metastases in malignant melanoma and breast carcinoma. The use …

The limited role of bone scanning in the diagnosis of metabolic bone disease might be
considerably improved by accurate quantification of skeletal uptake of the …

Background Debate continues over the management of the N0 neck in head and neck
malignancy. Therefore, the possibility of performing sentinel node biopsy in these patients …

Background Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) is a new technique in staging the clinically N0
neck. On June 25 and 26, 2001, the First International Conference on Sentinel Node Biopsy …

Objective To investigate the possible role of sentinel node biopsy (SNB) alone to upstage
the clinically N0 neck in patients with oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma …

The accuracy and sensitivity of the 99 Tc m-phosphate bone scan and conventional skeletal
radiology have been compared in 372 patients with documented malignant disease and 75 …

Abstract Zinc-65 (65 Zn) was administered to two patients a sufficient time before operation
for total hip replacement to permit incorporation of the isotope into skeletal muscle. Urinary …

METHODS The study group consists of ten patients complain ing of bone and muscle pain
and with histologically proven osteomalacia from various causes (Table 1). In each patient …

This study aimed to evaluate the ability of lymphoscintigraphy (LSG) to direct sentinel node
biopsy (SNB) in the identification of occult metastases in the clinically N0 neck for patients …

Total calculated uniform liver doses of up to 150 Gy were achieved using glass yttrium-90
microspheres administered via the hepatic artery and targeted to tumour using angiotensin …