Immunoscintigraphy (bw 250/183) in neonates and infants with fever of unknown origin

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1037-1046

  Gratz, S ^a   Behr, T M ^a   Herrmann, A ^a   Meller, J ^a   Conrad, M ^a   Becker, W ^a   Zappel, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOSCINTIGRAPHY; INFANT; ISOTOPE LABELING; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MALE; NEWBORN; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION; MALE; RADIOIMMUNODETECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031743215     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006231-199811000-00003     Document Type: Article

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