Assessing the limping child with skeletal scintigraphy

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1056-1061

  Connolly, Leonard P ^a,b   Treves, S Ted ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Avascular necrosis; Osteoid osteoma; Osteomyelitis; Skeletal scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BONE INFECTION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISKITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSARCOMA; PERTHES DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYNOVITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DISEASES; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GAIT; HUMANS; INFANT; LEGG-PERTHES DISEASE; MALE; OSTEOMA, OSTEOID; OSTEOMYELITIS; SPINAL DISEASES; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 0031838390     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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