Bronchial artery perfusion scintigraphy to assess bronchial artery blood flow after lung transplantation

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 290-295

  Nørgaard, Martin A ^a   Gadsbøll, Niels ^b   Efsen, Fritz ^b   Hesse, Birger ^b   Rabøl, Alan ^b   Pettersson, Gösta ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Blood flow; Bronchial artery revascularization; Scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRONCHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BRONCHIAL ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN;

EID: 0032983819     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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