The clinical usefulness of the fingers-to-palm ratio in different hand microcirculatory abnormalities

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 659-663

  Galuska, L ^a   Garai, I ^a   Csiki, Z ^a   Varga, J ^a   Bodolay, E ^a   Bajnok, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; GAMMA CAMERAS; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RAYNAUD DISEASE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE;

EID: 0034230717     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200007000-00010     Document Type: Review

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