Medical Definition of Neoplasm: gallium imaging
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Useful: Hodgkin disease and histiocytic form of NHL poor sensitivity below the diaphragm, Burkitt lymphoma: almost 100% sensitivity, hepatoma: 90% sensitivity, melanoma: 90% sensitivity, leukaemia possibly useful: NHL: good for large and mediastinal lesions, nodal metastases from seminoma and embryonal cell carcinoma: 87% sensitivity, non-small cell lung CA: 85% sensitive not useful: head and neck, GI (especially adenocarcinoma), breast, gynaecological, kiddie tumours see: gallium: indications
(12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neoplasm: Gallium Imaging
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