Nuclear medicine techniques in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.

By choosing the appropriate test or combination of tests, the clinician in conjunction with the nuclear medicine laboratory can best evaluate a patient with venous occlusive disease or pulmonary emboli (using radionuclide venography, white cells, streptokinase, or urokinase), or follow high risk patients such as those going to surgery or those at bed rest for some time (iodinated fibrinogen or labeled white cells).