Added value of SPECT/spiral CT versus SPECT in diagnosing solitary spinal lesions in patients with extraskeletal malignancies

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 451-458

  Zhang, Yiqiu ^a,b   Shi, Hongcheng ^a,b   Cheng, Dengfeng ^a,b   Jiang, Lei ^a,b   Xiu, Yan ^a,b   Li, Beilei ^a,b   Gu, Yushen ^a,b   Chen, Shuguang ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Institute of Material Medical   (China)

Author keywords

added value; single photon emission computed tomography spiral computed tomography; solitary spinal lesions

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84876407765     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32835fa552     Document Type: Article

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