Spet and three-phase planar bone scintigraphy in adult patients with chronic low back pain

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-22

  Kanmaz, B ^a   Collier, B D ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Uzum, F ^a   Uygur, G ^a   Akansel, G ^a   Gunes, I ^a   Krasnow, A Z ^a   Hellman, R S ^a   Isitman, A T ^a   Carrera, G ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BONE SCINTISCANNING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINE DISEASE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACK PAIN; BONE AND BONES; DATABASES; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 15444343986     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006231-199801000-00004     Document Type: Article

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