Cardiac sarcoidosis mimicking hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Clinical utility of radionuclide imaging for differential diagnosis

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 465-468

  Yazaki, Yoshikazu ^a   Isobe, Mitsuaki ^a   Hayasaka, Muneharu ^a   Tanaka, Masao ^a   Fujii, Tadashige ^a   Sekiguchi, Morie ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac sarcoidosis; Gallium 67; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Technetium 99m pyrophosphate

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67; PYROPHOSPHATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; SARCOIDOSIS;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOIDOSIS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PYROPHOSPHATE; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0031835119     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.62.465     Document Type: Article

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