Quantitative lung perfusion scintigraphy and detection of intrapulmonary shunt in liver cirrhosis

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 577-581

  Hosono, Makoto ^a   Machida, Kikuo ^a   Honda, Norinari ^a   Takahashi, Takeo ^a   Kashimada, Akio ^a   Osada, Hisato ^a   Murata, Osamu ^a   Ohtawa, Nobuyuki ^a   Nishimura, Keiichiro ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intrapulmonary shunt; Liver cirrhosis; Lung perfusion scintigraphy; Pulmonary vascular dilation; Technetium 99m MAA

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN TC 99M; MACROSALB TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0036995673     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02988637     Document Type: Article

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