Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 314-317 , December 2008

The Cephalad Malposition of a Kidney as a Thoracic Abnormality on Tc-99m MDP Bone Scintigraphy

  • Hung-Jen Hsieh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, 707, Section 3, Chung-Yang Road, Hualien, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Kun-Han Lue

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

Received 29 February 2008 ,Revised 20 March 2008 ,Accepted 26 March 2008.

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PII: S1016-3190(08)60057-9

doi: 10.1016/S1016-3190(08)60057-9

Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 314-317 , December 2008

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