Scintigraphic screening prior to visceral arteriography in acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1081-1083

  Gunderman, Richard ^a   Leef, Jeffrey ^b   Ong, Kenneth ^b   Reba, Richard ^b   Metz, Charles ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arteriography; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Scintigraphic screening; Technetium 99m red blood cell scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXTRAVASATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCREENING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISCERA;

EID: 0031838986     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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