The importance of delayed images in gastrointestinal bleeding scintigraphy

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 803-808

  Zettinig, G ^a   Staudenherz, A ^a   Leitha, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Delayed images; Gastrointestinal bleeding scintigraphy; Guidelines; Intermittent bleeding; Radionuclide imaging; RBC scan; Tagged erthrocytes; Tc99m labelled red blood cells

Indexed keywords

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

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERYTHROCYTES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM; TIME FACTORS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035991812     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200208000-00015     Document Type: Article

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