One-year follow-up of technetium-99m-HMPAO SPECT in mild head injury

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1605-1609

  Jacobs, Axel ^a   Put, Eric ^b   Ingels, Michel ^b   Put, Theo ^b   Bossuyt, Axel ^b  

^a VIRGA JESSE HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

mild head injury; regional cerebral blood flow; SPECT; technetium 99m HMPAO

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029794633     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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