Diagnosis of chronic osteomyelitis by combined 99mTc-bone and 99mTc-anti-granulocyte scintigraphy

Nuklearmedizin 2016; 55(06): N60-N61
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1616506

Case report

Schattauer GmbH

Diagnosis of chronic osteomyelitis by combined ^99mTc-bone and ^99mTc-anti-granulocyte scintigraphy

Anne Frölich

¹Nuklearmedizin Neumann, Nuclear Medicine Practice, Leipzig, Germany
Gotthard Knoll

²Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Leipzig, Germany
Manfred Bähre

³Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Halle, Germany
Christoph Neumann

¹Nuklearmedizin Neumann, Nuclear Medicine Practice, Leipzig, Germany

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