Ayah Adel Nawwar

The influence of patient hydration on Tc-99m- MDP bone scintigraphy / Tc99m MDP تأثير تناول المريض للسوائل على المسح الذرى للعظام بواسطة Ayah Adel Nawwar ;Supervised Amr Mohamed Amin , Saleh Abdou Mohamed , Mahasen Amin Abugabal - Cairo : Ayah Adel Nawwar , 2012 - 81P. : facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Nuclear Medicine

The aim of this study was to establish whether hydration with fluid intake following radiopharmaceutical administration [Tc-99m MDP] has a real impact on the quality of skeletal scintigraphy . A hundred and forty tree patients referred for bone scanning for various reasons over a seven month period were classified into two groups. Group 1 was issued with instructions to hydrate properly by fluid intake following tracer injection while subjects of group 2 were instructed not to take any fluids till the scan imaging



Bone scintigraphy Bone: soft tissue ratio Hydration