DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR BONE TUMOURS

摘要

FIELD: medicine. ^ SUBSTANCE: for the purpose of diagnosing bone tumours, spectrophotometry is applied to measure blood serum neopterin. If the value is more than 2.6 ng/ml to 7.0, a benign tumour process is diagnosed, while the value more than 7.1 ng/ml shows a malignant tumour process. ^ EFFECT: using said technique enables higher accuracy of differential and early diagnosis of malignant bone growths. ^ 2 ex