Serial scintigraphic assessment of iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine lung uptake in a patient with high-altitude pulmonary edema

Chest

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1129-1131

  Koizumi, Tomonobu ^a   Kubo, Keishi ^a   Hanaoka, Masayuki ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Shinji ^a   Fujii, Tadashige ^a   Kobayashi, Toshio ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

High altitude pulmonary edema; Hypoxia; Iodine 123 metaiodobenzylguanidine; Pulmonary endothelial cell function

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE; IODINE 123;

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032693052     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.116.4.1129     Document Type: Article

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