Bone scanning in the diagnosis of acute
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Howard T. Nelson; Andrew Taylor
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Article
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1980
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Springer
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English
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Fifty-nine patients with suspected osteomyelitis were referred to the Nuclear Medicine Service for bone scanning during a twelve month period. The bone scan correctly identified abnormal sites in 18 of 19 patients with osteomyelitis (sensitivity of 95%) while the radiograph detected only 6 of 19 (se