Scintigraphic and ultrasonographic assessment of the effect of lumbar sympathectomy upon chronic arteriosclerotic ischaemia of lower extremities

Nuclear Medicine Review

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-22

  Dabrowski, Janusz ^a   Mikosiński, Jacek ^b   Kuśmierek, Jacek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs   (Poland)

Author keywords

Lumbar sympathectomy; Muscular perfusion scintigraphy; Ultrasound measurements of blood flow rate

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LEG ISCHEMIA; LUMBAR SYMPATHECTOMY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPATHECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 0038684417     PISSN: 15069680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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