Selective dual nuclear scanning in low-risk patients with chest pain to reliably identify and exclude acute coronary syndromes

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 207-215

  Fesmire, Francis M ^a   Hughes, Alan D ^a   Stout, Paul K ^a   Wojcik, James F ^a   Wharton, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034830211     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2001.116594     Document Type: Article

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