Three-Phase Skeletal Scintigraphy in Gouty Arthritis An Example of Potential Diagnostic Pitfalls in Radiopharmaceutical Imaging of the Extremities for Infection

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-39

  Pickhardt, Perry J ^a   Shapiro, Brahm ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCYTE IN 111; OXIDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; URIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GOUT; HUMAN; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, GOUTY; BONE AND BONES; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE;

EID: 0030030521     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199601000-00009     Document Type: Article

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