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Radiosynovectomy in rheumatic diseases [PDF]
Journal of Ultrasonography, 2014 Radiosynovectomy is a safe and repeatable treatment method of chronic synovitis with synovial overgrowth and refractory chronic or acute inflammatory joint effusion.
Jarosław B. Ćwikła +4 more
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Radiosynovectomy in the Therapeutic Management of Arthritis
World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2015 Radiosynovectomy is a well-established therapy in arthritis and involves an intra-articular injection of small radioactive particles to treat a synovitis. In Europe, frequent indications are rheumatoid and poly-arthritis.
Liepe Knut
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Rheumatology, 2016 Objectives : Hypertrophic and exudative synovitis of the knee is one of the earliest symptoms in rheumatic diseases. In the case of pharmacotherapy failure, other methods which directly remove the inflamed synovial membrane are used – synovectomies ...
Joanna Zalewska +5 more
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Post‐radiosynovectomy imaging of Er‐169 using scintigraphy and autoradiography
Clinical Case Reports, 2017 Key Clinical Message Currently, there is no protocol for the detection of intra‐articular distribution of Er‐169 citrate after radiosynovectomy. We propose post‐therapeutic imaging using scintigraphy and cobalt‐57 pen‐marker autoradiography.
Jamshid Farahati +6 more
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Radiosynovectomy with 188Re-Colloid in Behcet’s Patient with Drug-Resistant Arthritis: A Rare Case Report [PDF]
Journal of Research in Clinical MedicineBehçet’s disease is a rare vasculitis that can cause arthritis refractory to standard treatments. This case report describes the use of radiosynovectomy with 188Re-colloid in a patient with drug-resistant Behçet’s arthritis. A 33-year-old man with Behçet’
Esmaeil Gharepapagh +3 more
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Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, 2015 Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease that is mainly characterized by asymmetric erosive synovitis, particularly affecting peripheral joints. Radiation synovectomy, or radiosynovectomy, was first described in 1950s as an adjuvant treatment for ...
Koramadai K Kamaleshwaran +5 more
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Radionuclide synovectomy – essentials for rheumatologists
Rheumatology, 2016 Radionuclide synovectomy is a minimally invasive method of treating persistent joint inflammation. It involves intra-articular injection of radioactive colloids which induce necrosis and fibrosis of hypertrophic synovial membrane.
Marek M. Chojnowski +2 more
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A Technical Complication of Radiosynovectomy in the Ankle
Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2013 Chronic hemophilic synovitis due to intra-articular bleeding in hemophilia A (a congenital coagulation defect) is a common manifestation. Radiosynovectomy is used for the ablation of chronic hemophilic synovitis. Complications due to radiosynovectomy may be seen, such as leakage of radioactivity to the lymph nodes, liver, and spleen via the lymphatic ...
Gokhan, Koca +4 more
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Development of 177Lu-phytate Complex for Radiosynovectomy [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2013 Objective(s): In this work a new possible agent for radiosynovectomy has been targeted for articular pain palliation. Materials and Methods: Lu-177 of 2.6-3 GBq/mg specific activity was obtained by irradiation of natural Lu2O3 sample with thermal neutron
Hassan Yousefnia +5 more
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World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2015 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease that is mainly characterized by the asymmetric erosive synovitis, particularly affecting peripheral joints.
Koramadai Kamaleshwaran +6 more
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