Nuclear cardiology in the evaluation of acute chest pain in the emergency department

Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 6 I, 2000, Pages 597-604

  Abbott, Brian G ^a   Jain, Diwakar ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Chest pain; Emergency department; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Stress testing

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M; TETROFOSMIN; THALLIUM 201;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033809764     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2000.00597.x     Document Type: Article

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