Multislice SPECT/CT in Benign and Malignant Bone Disease: When the Ordinary Turns Into the Extraordinary

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 431-442

  Gnanasegaran, Gopinath ^a,b   Barwick, Tara ^b   Adamson, Kathryn ^b   Mohan, Hosahalli ^b   Sharp, David ^b   Fogelman, Ignac ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPATHY; BACKACHE; BONE CANCER; BONE DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; KNEE PAIN; OSTEOID OSTEOMA; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

BONE DISEASES; BONE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349429727     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2009.07.005     Document Type: Review

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