Thallium reinjection versus standard stress/delay redistribution imaging for prediction of cardiac events

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1280-1285

  Zafrir, Nili ^a,b   Leppo, Jeffrey A ^c   Reinhardt, Christopher P ^c   Dahlberg, Seth T ^c  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0032080765     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00079-5     Document Type: Article

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