The prospect of incidental detection of unsuspected skeletal tuberculosis by bone scintigraphy should not be overlooked

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 435-439

  Zhang, Yanyan ^a   Zhang, Yifan ^b   Ma, Jing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Back pain; Bone scintigraphy; Skeletal tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BACKACHE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACK PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 34249007447     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318053ed4d     Document Type: Review

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