Cranial osteomyelitis: Diagnosis and follow-up with in-111 white blood cell and Tc-99m methylene diphosphonate bone SPECT, CT, and MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 779-788

  Seabold, James E ^a,b   Simonson, Tereasa M ^a   Weber, Peter C ^a   Thompson, Brad H ^a   Harris, Kurt G ^a   Rezai, Karim ^a   Madsen, Mark T ^a   Hoffman, Henry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bones, infection; Skull, CT; Skull, diseases; Skull, MR; Skull, radionuclide studies

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029102691     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.196.3.7644643     Document Type: Article

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