Radiolabelled white blood cell imaging in arthritis. Is it a blood pool effect?
The aim of this study is to determine whether white blood cell imaging in inflammatory conditions is due to a blood pool effect as a result of an increased vascularity and vascular permeability, or whether cellular migration is the major contributing factor. It will be shown that white cell uptake is a specific phenomenon in the rheumatoid knee joint and not just a blood pool effect.
al-Janabi
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Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK.
Critchley
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M
Maltby
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P
Britton
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KE
D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004912:Erythrocytes; D005260:Female; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007962:Leukocytes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D010091:Oximes; D013667:Technetium; D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin; D019690:Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime
D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D010091:Oximes; D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin; D019690:Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime; D013667:Technetium