99mTc-HMPAO brain SPECT imaging in a case of repeated syncopal episodes associated with smoking

Stroke

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1461-1463

  Fukuda, Hitoshi ^a,b   Kitani, Mitsuhiro ^a   Omodani, Hiroki ^a  

^a Masuda Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^b Masuda Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Cigarette smoking; Emission computed; Syncope; Tomography

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NICOTINE GUM; OXIME; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; HUMAN; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYNCOPE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SMOKING;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; SMOKING; SYNCOPE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030611059     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.28.7.1461     Document Type: Article

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