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Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis study results reported from H. Ahmadihosseini et al
September 9th, 2008
" We studied the usefulness of (99m)-Tc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile MIBI scintigraphy for differentiation between active and inactive pulmonary tuberculosis. Thirty-six patients (aged 27-82 years, 16 males and 20 females) were included in our study," scientists in Iran report. "Each patient was injected with 740 MBq (20 mCi) Tc-99m-MIBI and both planar and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging were performed 15 and 60 min after injection. Twenty-four patients had active pulmonary tuberculosis (proven by sputum culture), and the remainder 12 had negative sputum culture. Semiquantitative as well as visual assessments were done on all sets of images. ...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-09-09)
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