99mTc-WBC scintigraphy with SPECT/CT in the evaluation of arterial graft infection

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 411-416

  Lou, Lawrence ^a   Alibhai, Karim N ^a   Winkelaar, Gerrit B ^a   Turnbull, Robert G ^a   Hoskinson, Michael E ^a   Warshawski, Robert ^a   Jen, Ho ^a   Abele, Jonathan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

99mTc hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (HMPAO); Ceretec; Emission computed; Prosthesis related infections; Radionuclide imaging; Single photon; Spiral computed tomography

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHITE BLOOD CELL TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951051281     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328337142c     Document Type: Article

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