Disseminated mycobacterium avium complex: Review of Ga-67 and Tl-201 scans and autopsy findings

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 547-556

  Abdel Dayem, Hussein M ^a,b   Omar, Walid S ^a   Aziz, Mohamed ^a   Labombardi, Vincent ^b   Difabrizio, Larry ^a   Kempf, Jeffrey S ^a   Gillooley, John ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; SCINTISCANNING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0029951237     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199607000-00009     Document Type: Article

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