Differential diagnostic value of single-photon emission computed tomography/spiral computed tomography with Tc-99m-methylene diphosphonate in patients with spinal lesions

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1194-1200

  Zhang, Yiqiu ^a,b   Shi, Hongcheng ^a,b   Gu, Yushen ^a   Xiu, Yan ^a   Li, Beilei ^a   Zhu, Weimin ^a   Chen, Shuguang ^a   Yu, Haojun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Institute of Material Medical   (China)

Author keywords

benign; hybrid imaging; malignant; single photon emission computed tomography computed tomography

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLON CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY METASTASIS; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHANGIOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINE FRACTURE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; X RAY;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80455143868     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32834bd82e     Document Type: Article

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