| Autor: |
Dimitry Lumelsky, Izak Garty, Dan Miron, Sergey Bykov |
| Rok vydání: |
1999 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 24:809 |
| ISSN: |
0363-9762 |
| DOI: |
10.1097/00003072-199910000-00021 |
| Popis: |
Bone scintigraphy is a sensitive tool for the early diagnosis of osteomyelitis. However, bone scans can show reduced or normal accumulation of the radiotracer, particularly in neonatal osteomyelitis. In the presence of a normal bone scan but a clinical suggestion of osteomyelitis, Ga-67 citrate may be helpful in the diagnosis of bone infection and its possible origin in distant organs. The authors describe a neonate with acute osteomyelitis of the humerus and septic arthritis of the shoulder with a nondiagnostic bone scan and positive Ga-67 citrate scan. The latter simultaneously demonstrated the humerus osteomyelitis and its previously undiagnosed origin-an infected kidney (acute pyelonephritis). |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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