SPECT reveals causes of painful lumbar spine.
SPECT greatly enhances the utility of radionuclide bone scanning and is superior to planar techniques in many instances. Its unique ability to localize sites of increased metabolic activity to specific anatomic sites is a significant advance in clinical science, with meaningful applications to daily patient care.
St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center, Portland, OR.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods