Scintigraphic evaluation of synovial inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis with 99mtechnetium-labelled human polyclonal immunoglobulin G

Technetium-99m human polyclonal immunogl

Technetium-99m human polyclonal immunoglobulin G studies and conventional bone scans to detect active joint inflammation in chronic rheumatoid arthritis

✍ Lluis Berná; Gustavo Torres; César Diez; Montserrat Estorch; David Martínez-Dunc 📂 Article 📅 1992 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 683 KB

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic polyarthritis in which active inflammed joints coexist with joints in remission. We performed bone scans (99mTc-DPD) and 99mTc human polyclonal immunoglobulin G scans (99mTc-IgG) in 18 patients with rheumatoid arthritis to assess the uptake in actively inflamed join