Assessment of the diagnostic capacity of planar scintigraphy and SPECT with 99mTc-HMPAO-labelled leukocytes in superficial and deep sternal infections after median sternotomy

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 453-459

  Quirce, R ^a   Carril, J M ^a   Gutierrez Mendiguchya C ^b   Serrano, J ^b   Rabasa, J M ^b   Bernal, J M ^b  

^a Servicio de Medicina Nuclear   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mediastinitis; Osteomyelitis; SPECT; Sternotomy; Technetium Tc99m hexamethylpropylene amine ozime (HMPAO) leukocytes

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERICARDIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STERNOTOMY; TRACHEA CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SPAIN; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036251557     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200205000-00005     Document Type: Article

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