Do short-time SPECT images of bone scintigraphy improve the diagnostic value in the evaluation of solitary lesions in the thoracic spine in patients with extraskeletal malignancies?

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 557-566

  Kobayashi, Kana ^a   Okuyama, Chio ^a   Kubota, Takao ^a   Nakai, Takako ^a   Ushijima, Yo ^a   Nishimura, Tsunehiko ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

99mTc HMDP; Bone metastasis; Bone scintigraphy; SPECT; Thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

OXIDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER PATIENT; CHONDROSARCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINE CANCER; THORACIC SPINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 31544459215     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 09147187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02985048     Document Type: Article

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