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Designing a New Molecular Probe: The Potential Role for Tilmanocept (Lymphoseek(®)) in the Assessment of Patients with Painful Hip and Knee Joint Prostheses

BACKGROUND: There is a long history of nuclear medicine developments in orthopaedics beginning in the early 20(th) century. Technetium-99m ((99m)Tc) has a short half-life of six hours, emits 140 keV gamma rays and is the most widely used isotope, imaged with the Anger (gamma) camera. Gamma image qua...

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Autores principales: Adesanya, O.O., Hutchinson, C.E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28458734
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874325001711010212