Regional ventilation-perfusion mismatch in interstitial pneumonia: Correlation between scintigraphy and CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 166-171

  Ogawa, Yoji ^a   Ashizawa, Kazuto ^a   Hashmi, Rashid ^a   Takemoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Hayashi, Kuniaki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

computed tomography; honeycomb lung; interstitial pneumonia; lung scintigraphy; Ventilation perfusion mismatch

Indexed keywords

KRYPTON 81M; MACROSALB TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG BULLA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 0030892874     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199703000-00006     Document Type: Article

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