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| | A type of radionuclide scan used to find carcinoid and other types of tumors. Radioactive octreotide, a drug similar to somatostatin, is injected into a vein and travels through the bloodstream. The radioactive octreotide attaches to tumor cells that have receptors for somatostatin. A radiation-measuring device detects the radioactive octreotide, and makes pictures showing where the tumor cells are in the body. Also called octreotide scan and somatostatin receptor scintigraphy. |
| Previous Definitions: | squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, squamous intraepithelial lesion, SR-29142, SR-45023A, SR49059 | | Next Definitions: | SSG, SSRI, St. Benedict's thistle, St. John's wort, ST1481 |
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