Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 82-83 , January 2001

Cold vertebrae on bone scintigraphy

  • Vladimir Sopov

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • Department of Orthopaedics, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • the Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Aharon Liberson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • Department of Orthopaedics, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • the Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Miguel Gorenberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • Department of Orthopaedics, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • the Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • David Groshar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • Department of Orthopaedics, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • the Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to David Groshar, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, POB 4940, Haifa, Israel 31048.
    • ,
  • Robert C. Stadalnik

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doi: 10.1053/snuc.2001.21076

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 82-83 , January 2001

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