The incremental value of SPECT/CT in characterizing solitary spine lesions

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 201-207

  Iqbal, Basit ^a,b   Currie, Geoffrey M ^a,c   Wheat, Janelle M ^a,c   Raza, Hassan ^b   Kiat, Hosen ^a,c  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JINNAH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE   (Pakistan)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone scan; Metastases; SPECT; SPECT CT; Spine lesion

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINA PROPRIA; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE INJURY; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82855177808     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.111.088351     Document Type: Article

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