1. The clinical value of scintigraphic brain scanning. Experience at the Hillbrow Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Author
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Joseph Levin, Ina Savitch, Jan D. Esser, Vellet D, Springolo E, Winterton R, and Milton Tobias
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,Intracranial pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Heavy load ,Scintigraphy ,South Africa ,Medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Medical physics ,False Positive Reactions ,Child ,Radionuclide Imaging ,Brain scanning ,False Negative Reactions ,Aged ,Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m ,Brain Diseases ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Brain Neoplasms ,Technetium ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Pentetic Acid ,Predictive value ,Child, Preschool ,Clinical value ,Technetium Tc 99m Pentetate ,Female ,business ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed - Abstract
Patients were referred to the Department of Nuclear Medicine for brain scintigraphy to be screened for possible intracranial pathology. These referrals were made in order to reduce the heavy load on the transmission computerized tomography (TCT) facilities. Great clinical importance, therefore, has been attached to scintigraphic findings; this emphasizes the need for an accurate assessment of the predictive value of this procedure.
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- 1985