Should the spleen need to be removed surgically (splenectomy), the risk of certain infections increases, and the patient will need to make certain that their immunizations are up to date, especially against pneumococcus, meningococcus and haemophilus influenzae.
The Uniform Task Based Management System (UTBMS) is a series of codes used to classify the legal services performed by a law firm in an electronic invoice submission. The codes are broken out into time codes, activity codes, and expense codes.
A radioactive isotope of technetium having a half-life of 6 hr, in which the âmâ refers to the fact that it is a metastable isotope.. 99m Tc is used in nuclear medicine for a wide variety of diagnostic tests and imaging studies, e.g., myocardial perfusion scans, bone scans, and V/Q scans.. radioactive tracer consisting of technetium-99m linked to MIBI. It is used in nuclear medical imaging (e.g., in scintimammography) to identify cancerous breast masses. Other uses of technetium 99m MIBI include cardiac, parathyroid, and thyroid imaging.