SELECTED TOPICS IN ORTHOPEDIC NUCLEAR-MEDICINE

Authors
DONOHOE KJ
Citation
Kj. Donohoe, SELECTED TOPICS IN ORTHOPEDIC NUCLEAR-MEDICINE, The Orthopedic clinics of North America, 29(1), 1998, pp. 85
Citations number
123
Categorie Soggetti
Orthopedics
Journal title
The Orthopedic clinics of North America → ACNP
ISSN journal
00305898
Volume
29
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-5898(1998)29:1<85:STION>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Nuclear medicine provides information about bone physiology that compl ements anatomic imaging modalities. Following a review of the principl es of bone scintigraphy, scintigraphic imaging of orthopedic problems, such as primary and secondary neoplastic disease of the skeleton, occ ult fracture, stress fracture, and osteomyelitis are discussed.