The role of preoperative Tc-99m HMPAO-labeled leukocyte total-body scans in aortic prosthetic reconstruction

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1024-1027

  Liberatore, Mauro ^a,b   Fiore, Vittorio ^a   Iurilli, Anna Paola ^a   Santini, Claudio ^a   Baiocchi, Pia ^a   Galiè, Maurizia ^a   Schioppa, Annalisa ^a   Rizzo, Luigi ^a   Fiorani, Paolo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Tc 99m Labeled Leukocytes; Total Body Scan; Vascular Surgery

Indexed keywords

HETASTARCH; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA PROSTHESIS; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTOFEMORAL BYPASS; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME;

EID: 0035189122     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200112000-00007     Document Type: Article

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