| Literature DB >> 30048149 |
Archi Agrawal1, Venkatesh Rangarajan1, Sneha Shah1, Ameya Puranik1, Nilendu Purandare1.
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Metaiodobenzylguanidine, a guanithidine analog, labeled with 123I and 131I, is used for imaging and therapy of neuroblastomas and various neural crest tumors like paragangliomas, pheochromocytomas, medullary cancer of thyroid and carcinoids since the past three to four decades. In this review article, we shall revisit metaiodobenzylguanidine as a radiopharmaceutical and its various applications in neural crest tumors.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30048149 PMCID: PMC6475939 DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20180103
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Radiol ISSN: 0007-1285 Impact factor: 3.039