PET and SPECT in Osteomyelitis and Prosthetic Bone and Joint Infections: A Systematic Review

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-15

  van der Bruggen, Wouter ^a   Bleeker Rovers, Chantal P ^a   Boerman, Otto C ^a   Gotthardt, Martin ^a   Oyen, Wim J G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD15 ANTIBODY IGM ANTIBODY TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; GRANULOCYTE ANTIBODY; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; HYNIC IGG TC 99M; IGG INDIUM 11; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; INDIUM 111; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NCA 95 ANTIBODY IGG ANTIBODY TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM 99M; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY LABELING; BONE PROSTHESIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CELL LABELING; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG UPTAKE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEUKOCYTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 70749105323     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2009.08.005     Document Type: Review

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