Rational and reliable diagnosis of periprosthetic hip and knee joint infection using two nuclear-medicine methods: 99mTc-ciprofloxacin and 99mTc-MDP scintigraphy [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2021 Background/Aim. There is a constant and dramatic in-crease in hip and knee prosthetic implantations worldwide. However, a decrease in the percentage of failed (infected) prosthetic implantations is not significant (0.5% up to 2%).
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Case Reports in Clinical Practice, 2022 A 41-year-old female with retractable epigastric pain due to an invasive neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas was treated with blockage and radiofrequency ablation of the celiac and splanchnic plexuses.
Saeed Farzanehfar +3 more
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Combined bone scintigraphy with 99mTc-MDP and 99mTc-ciprofloxacin in differentiation of hip and knee prosthesis aseptic loosening and infection: A preliminary study [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017 Background/Aim. Although the number of new primary implantation of hip and knee prostheses every year increases, the rate of failed arthroplasty is nearly the same.
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Incidence and imaging characteristics of skeletal metastases detected by bone scintigraphy in lung cancer patients [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2006 Background/Aim. Detection of metastatic bone disease by skeletal scintigraphy is a classical application of nuclear medicine in cancer patients. Detection of bone metastases in patients with lung cancer is necessary for an appropriate treatment modality.
Jauković Ljiljana +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia, 2012 OBJETIVO: Este estudo objetiva apresentar sete casos de necrose avascular de sesamoide e relatar o papel da cintilografia óssea no diagnóstico desses pacientes.
Carlyle Marques Barral +4 more
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American Journal of Veterinary Research, 2012 Abstract Objective—To determine the effects of exercise on the distribution and pharmacokinetics of technetium Tc 99m medronate (99mTc-MDP) following intra-articular (IA) injection in horses. Animals—5 horses. Procedures—1 antebrachiocarpal joint (ACJ)/horse was assigned to the exercised group (n = 5), and the contralateral ACJ was evaluated in the ...
Jennifer A, Dulin +5 more
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São Paulo Medical JournalCONTEXT: Non-small cell lung carcinomas (NSCLCs) of the superior sulcus are considered to be the most challenging type of malignant thoracic disease. In this disease, neoplasms originating mostly from the extreme apex of the lung expand to the chest wall
Hamid Javadi +7 more
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A computer program to assess the bone scan index for Tc-99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate: evaluation of jaw pathologies of patients with bone metastases using SPECT/CT [PDF]
Diagn Interv Radiol, 2023 Ogawa R, Ogura I.
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Dynamic blood flow imaging with 99mTc-hydroxymethylene diphosphonate as a therapeutic response marker in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Yoo J, Cheon M.
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