Impact of clinical data and interhospital agreement in interpretation of myocardial perfusion (spet);Impacto de los datos clínicos y concordancia interhospitalaria en la interpretación de la tomogammagrafía miocárdica de perfusión

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 892-897

  Candell Riera, Jaume ^b   Santana Boado, César ^b   Bermejo, Begoña ^b   Armadans, Lluís ^b   Castell, Joan ^b   Casáns A, Irene ^b   Jurado, José Alfonso ^b   Magriñá, Jordi ^b   De La Rosa, José Antonio Nuño ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Exercise; Scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

AGED; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033217659     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-8932(99)75020-7     Document Type: Article

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