Chronic exertional compartment syndrome in lower legs: Localization and follow-up with thallium-201 SPECT imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 972-976

  Takebayashi, Shigeo ^a   Takazawa, Haruo ^b   Sasaki, Ryosuke ^b   Miki, Hideyuki ^b   Soh, Ryotaku ^b   Nishimura, Junichi ^b  

^a Yokohama City Kowan Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chronic exertional compartment syndrome; SPECT; Sports injuries; Thallium 201

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPORT INJURY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; ANTERIOR COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030980955     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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