title: [Modern nuclear medicine--indications for general practice].
abstract: For the general practitioner scintigraphic investigation of the skeleton and the lung and the isotope techniques for evaluation of diseases of the thyroid are important. Scintigraphy of the skeleton and the lung, the latter consisting of ventilation and perfusion tests, are briefly described. Examples are used to outline the most important indications for these studies. Investigations of the thyroid comprises basic procedures such as chemical tests, sonography, scintigraphy, eventually complemented by fine-needle aspiration, as well as treatments with radioactive iodine isotopes. Finally, the recently introduced densitometry of bones is briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Departement für medizinische Radiologie, Universitätsspital, Zürich.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bicik
authors.forename: G K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: von Schulthess
mesh_terms: D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014692:Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio
vernacular_title: Moderne Nuklearmedizin--Indikationen für die Allgemeinpraxis.