Diagnosis of extensive coronary artery disease: Intrinsic value of increased lung 201T1 uptake with exercise SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 567-574

  Daou, Doumit ^a   Delahaye, Nicolas ^b   Lebtahi, Rachida ^b   Vilain, Didier ^b   Peker, Can ^b   Faraggi, Marc ^b   Le Guludec, Dominique ^b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

201Tl; Coronary artery disease; Exercise; Radionuclide; SPECT

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG UPTAKE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034110906     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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