The diphosphonate space: a useful quantitative index of disease activity in patients undergoing hexamethylene diphosphonate (HMDP) bone imaging for Paget's disease

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 25 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-6997
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00184131

✦ Synopsis

In the title of the above article the bone-imaging agent HMDP was incorrectly expanded to "hexamethylene diphosphonate", which is incorrect. The correct full chemical name of the agent is "hydroxy methylene diphosphonate"o