Local Treatment of Inflammatory Joint Diseases Benefits and Risks /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kampen, Willm Uwe (Editor), Fischer, Manfred (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Nuclear medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Medicine & Public Health.; Nuclear Medicine.

This book presents a systematic survey of different local treatments in inflammatory joint diseases and their potential side effects and complications. Both surgical therapies and pharmaceutical strategies involving local or systemic application of anti-inflammatory and immunomodulating drugs are ad...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Histopathology of synovitis
• Non-radioactive treatment of synovitis (risk-benefit)
• Introduction to radiosynoviorthesis (RSO)
• Dosimetry and radiation burden
• Local complications and possible treatment strategies
• Risk of malignoma induction
• Baker´s cysts – a relevant contraindication?.- Analysis of periodic update reports
• Summary.