99Tcm-hmpao-labelled white blood cell scans to detect acute appendicitis in older patients with an atypical clinical presentation

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-78

  Lin, W Y ^a   Kao, Chia Hung ^a   Lin, H T ^a   Wang, Y L ^a   Wang, S J ^a   Liu, T J ^a  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; OXIME; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SCINTISCANNING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; APPENDICITIS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030615035     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006231-199701000-00015     Document Type: Article

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