Transient right-to-left shunt in massive pulmonary embolism

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 217-221

  Panoutsopoulos, George ^a   Ilias, Ioannis ^b   Christakopoulou, Ioulia ^b  

^a Sixth Pulmonary Clinic   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Perfusion scan; Pulmonary embolism; Transient right to left shunt

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBUS;

EID: 0033929629     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02987863     Document Type: Article

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