Gallium-67 SPECT scintigraphy may be useful in diagnosis of temporal arteritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 257-260

  Reitblat, T ^a,b   Ben Horin, C L ^a   Reitblat, A ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SCINTIGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG UPTAKE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOISOTOPE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TEMPORAL BONE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CINERADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0037370939     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.3.257     Document Type: Article

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