Radionuclides in Medicine

Radionuclides in orthopaedic surgery.

Bone scanning with radioactive isotopes has become a routine method for investigating disorders of bone. Departments of nuclear medicine throughout the country offer diagnostic facilities for a variety of problems which affect not only bone, but also the heart, kidney, brain, liver, pancreas and spleen as well as disorders of the blood. Indeed the use of radionuclides is now an important and es...

[Radionuclides in urology].

Natural Radionuclides in Seafood

Administered radionuclides in pregnancy.

Radiopharmaceuticals are occasionally administered to pregnant patients either out of clinical necessity or by accident. In recognition of the latter, the Society of Nuclear Medicine recommends pregnancy testing before any procedure that will expose the fetus to >50 mGy. When pregnancy is known, the dose of radionuclide to be employed is kept as low as possible without sacrificing radiographic ...

Radionuclides in renal transplantation.

acid In the terminal stages of renal failure, renal trans plantation has become an effective means of treat ment (1,2) . Although survival rates have improved since the availability of adequate immunotherapy, present means of diagnosing the various forms of renal complications leave much to be desired. Since 1966 180 kidney transplantations have been performed at the university clinics in Munic...