Nuklearmed Nucl Med
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Nuklearmed Nucl Med · Dec 2001
Pulmonary thromboembolism: a retrospective study on the examination of 991 patients by ventilation/perfusion SPECT using Technegas.
Conventional planar ventilation/perfusion (V/P)-imaging in those patients suspected of suffering from pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is of limited diagnostic value. It is the purpose of this retrospective study to determine whether the use of V/P-SPECT using Technegas might reduce the rate of those diagnostic uncertainties and might lead to better results. ⋯ We conclude that V/P imaging can be improved significantly by V/P SPECT using Technegas.
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Nuklearmed Nucl Med · Dec 2001
[The insufficiency fracture of the sacrum. An often unrecognized cause of low back pain: results of bone scanning in a major hospital].
The insufficiency fracture of the sacrum is often radiographically occult. Bone scintigraphy is a method of reference for the diagnosis; the results have been analysed retrospectively. ⋯ The insufficiency fracture of the sacrum as cause of lower back pain is not uncommon, especially in postmenopausal women with risk factors. Bone scintigraphy is not only an adequate procedure for the detection of often radiographically occult sacral fractures, but also an easy method to reveal the often concomitant fractures.