Clinical significance of ventilation/perfusion scans in collagen disease patients

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 405-413

  Suzuki, Kenzo ^a   Kamata, Noriko ^b   Inokuma, Shigeko ^b   Terada, Hitoshi ^b   Yokoyama, Yoshiaki ^b   Abe, Katsumi ^b   Mochizuki, Takao ^b   Kobayashi, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN HIROO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen disease pulmonary fibrosis; Pulmonary hypertension; Pulmonary shunt; Ventilation perfusion

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M; XENON 133;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0034482846     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02988285     Document Type: Article

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