Nuclear medicine in the management of inflammatory and infectious diseases
By: A. Signore, M. Liberatore, F. Scopinaro, editors.
Contributors: Signore, A. 1959-; Liberatore, M. 1953-; Scopinaro, F. 1948-
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Diagnosis -- Congresses.; Inflammation -- Diagnosis -- Congresses.; Diagnostic imaging -- Congresses.; Nuclear medicine -- Congresses.; Communicable Diseases -- radiography -- Congresses.; Inflammation -- radiography -- Congresses.; Nuclear Medicine -- Congresses.; Technology, Radiologic -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Examines management issues of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, orthopaedic infections, vascular prosthesis infection, FUO and endocarditis, rheumatoid arthritis, and neurological infections. The topics discussed in the book are of great importance for clinicians, nuclear medicine doctors and radiologists. At the end of each chapter, the commonly agreed diagnostic flow-charts for the management of patients with inflammation/infection are published.
Notes: Papers from a "post-congress meeting" held in Capri in 2001 following the annual European Nuclear Medicine Congress.

Includes bibliographical references and index.