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Intraoperative, probe-guided curettage of osteoid osteoma
B Kirchner1, A Hillmann, G Lottes
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
The only curative approach for osteoid osteoma is operative removal of the nidus, but intraoperative detection of the nidus is difficult even when an X-ray amplifier is used. A simple probe-guided operative procedure using technetium-99m methylene diphosphonate is described, and the results and follow-up in 12 patients are reported. In addition physical properties of the probe have been evaluated by phantom measurements.