"False-positive" myocardial perfusion scintigraphy findings in patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries: Insights from intravascular sonography studies

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1935-1940

  Verna, E ^a   Ceriani, L ^a   Giovanella, L ^a   Binaghi, G ^a   Garancini, S ^a  

^a OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary blood flow; Intracoronary sonography; Sestamibi; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; EXERCISE TEST; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0034526528     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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