Planar scintigraphy and spet with99tcm-hmpao-labelled leukocytes in patients with median sternotomy: Normal patterns

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 901-906

  GutieRrez MendiguchiA C ^a   Carril, José Manuel ^a   Quirce, R ^a   Rabasa, J M ^a   Bernal, J M ^a   Serrano, J ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SAN JUAN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; SCINTIGRAPHY; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE VALUES; STERNUM; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032726472     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006231-199910000-00006     Document Type: Article

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