Isotopic scintigraphy in the diagnosis of the spread of bronchial cancer
Mensch-Dechêne, J.; Silbert, D.; Merlier, M.
La Semaine des Hopitaux Organe Fonde Par l'Association d'Enseignement Medical des Hopitaux de Paris 58(33): 1897-1898
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-1777 PMID: 6293068 Document Number: 195526
Ventilation of the lungs using Xenon 133 and perfusion scans using 99m Tc albumin particles in microspheres were performed on 455 patients with bronchial cancers and 55 patients with pulmonary metastases. Ventilation-perfusion mismatch and functional defects of the lung, which are never found in nodular-shaped pulmonary metastases, vary in frequency according to the anatomo-pathological type of the tumor and constitute a limiting factor for ablation.