The clinical utility of quantitative cholescintigraphy: The significance of gallbladder dysfunction

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 278-282

  Klieger, Peter S ^a   O'Mara, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CCK; Cholecystitis; Gallbladder; Quantitative Cholescintigraphy

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ; DISOFENIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; GALLBLADDER; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REMISSION INDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031894282     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199805000-00003     Document Type: Article

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