Relationship between thallium-201 myocardial SPECT and findings of endomyocardial biopsy specimens in dilated cardiomyopathy

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-19

  Watanabe, Motohiro ^a   Gotoh, Kohshi ^a   Nagashima, Kenshi ^a   Uno, Yoshihiro ^a   Noda, Toshiyuki ^a   Nishigaki, Kazuhiko ^a   Takemura, Genzou ^a   Kanoh, Motoo ^a   Yasuda, Norio ^a   Ohno, Yasushi ^a   Minatoguchi, Shinya ^a   Fujiwara, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dilated cardiomyopathy; Endomyocardial biopsy; Thallium

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035066561     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03012125     Document Type: Article

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