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A Surgical Procedure for Resecting the Mouse Rib: A Model for Large-Scale Long Bone Repair
Published on: January 21, 2015
Intraoperative gamma probe directed rib resection
R N Uppot1, V K Gheyi, B Panasuk
1Department of Radiology, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware, USA.
Delaware Medical Journal
|October 24, 2000
Abstract:
Radioguided surgery has slowly gained acceptance since the first gamma probe directed sentinel node lymph node biopsy in a patient with melanoma in 1993. We describe how the intraoperative gamma probe is used to localize a rib with abnormal uptake on the bone scan in a patient with rib pain.
