High-tension electrical injury to the heart as assessed by radionuclide imaging

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 557-561

  Iino, Hitoshi ^a,b   Chikamori, Taishiro ^a   Hatano, Tsuguhisa ^a   Morishima, Takayuki ^a   Hida, Satoshi ^a   Yanagisawa, Hidefumi ^a   Usui, Yasuhiro ^a   Kamada, Tatsuya ^a   Watanabe, Katsueki ^a   Yamashina, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

123I metaiodo benzylguanidine; Cardiac complication; Electrical injury; Thallium myocardial imaging

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INJURY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INJURY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

EID: 0036989714     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02988633     Document Type: Article

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