Cardiac imaging in women: Use of radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging and echocardiography for acute chest pain

Cardiology in Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 149-160

  Mobasseri, Sara ^a   Hendel, Robert C ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Gender; Imaging; Single photon emission computed tomography; Women

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036303532     PISSN: 10615377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00045415-200205000-00003     Document Type: Review

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