Nuclear Medicine Therapy Side Effects and Complications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Giovanella, Luca (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Nuclear medicine.; Oncology .; Endocrinology .; Nursing-Study and teaching.; Nuclear Medicine.; Oncology.; Endocrinology.; Nursing Education.

This book considers how Nuclear Medicine treatments have been further developed in the past several years and are now widely applied in clinical practice, especially in oncological patients, in addition to radioiodine therapy for various thyroid diseases. These treatments are very effective when pro...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgement.-Nuclear medicine theranostics: between atoms and patients
• Radioiodine therapy of benign thyroid diseases
• Radioiodine therapy of thyroid cancers
• Peptide radio-receptor therapy (pprt) of neuroendocrine tumors
• [I-131]-MIBG therapy of malignant pheochromocytomas and neuroblastoma
• Radiometabolic therapy of bone metastases
• Selective internal radiotherapy (sirt) of primary hepatic carcinoma and liver metastases
• Radioimmunotherapy of lymphomas.