Advantages and Limitations of Imaging the Musculoskeletal System by Conventional Radiological, Radionuclide, and Hybrid Modalities

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 357-368

  Vijayanathan, Sanjay ^a   Butt, Sajid ^b   Gnanasegaran, Gopinath ^a   Groves, Ashley M ^c  

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

^b ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM; GALLIUM CITRATE; INDIUM 111; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTHROPATHY; BONE CANCER; BONE INFECTION; BONE INJURY; BONE METASTASIS; BONE NECROSIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELLULITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DIAGNOSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYOSITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN INFECTION; TENDINITIS;

CELLULITIS; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; MYOSITIS; NEOPLASMS; OSTEOMYELITIS; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 70349429728     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2009.07.001     Document Type: Review

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