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Technetium-99m white blood cell imaging: false-negative result in salmonella osteomyelitis associated with sickle
B H Guze1, R A Hawkins, C S Marcus
1Department of Radiology, UCLA 90024.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
The authors report a case of sickle cell anemia associated osteomyelitis where the Tc-99m white blood cell imaging was negative, and bone imaging showed increased uptake in the region in question. The reasons for the possible false-negative image are discussed.