White blood cell scan in the follow-up of infectious diseases: is the withdrawal of antibiotic therapy necessary?

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 151-153

  Liberatore, Mauro ^a   Al Nahhas, Adil ^a   Rubello, Domenico ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; TECHNIQUE; WHITE BLOOD CELL SCAN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 33846666547     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328054c56a     Document Type: Editorial

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