Bone SPECT imaging of the painful back

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 560-571

  Gates, Gary F ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKACHE; BONE CANCER; BONE SCINTISCANNING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOPHYTE; PAGET BONE DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

BACK PAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL INJURIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030006720     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199607000-00011     Document Type: Review

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