Photopenia in chronic vertebral osteomyelitis with technetium-99m- antigranulocyte antibody (BW 250/183)

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 211-216

  Gratz, Stefan ^a   Braun, Hans Gottfried ^a   Behr, Thomas M ^a   Meller, Johannes ^a   Herrmann, Axel ^a   Conrad, Monika ^a   Rathmann, Doris ^a   Bertagnoli, Rudolf ^a   Willert, Hans Georg ^a   Becker, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

photopenic lesion; quantitative uptake; technetium 99m antigranulocyte antibodies; vertebral osteomyelitis

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; SPONDYLOSIS; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 0031038946     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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