Thallium-201 myocardial SPECT in a patient with mirror-image dextrocardia and left bundle branch block

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 503-506

  Turgut, Bülent ^a   Kitapci, Mehmet T ^b   Temiz, N Hakan ^b   Ünlü, Mustafa ^b   Erselcan, Taner ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Left bundle branch block; Mirror image dextrocardia; Myocardial SPECT; Thallium 201

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEXTROCARDIA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SITUS INVERSUS;

EID: 0141867706     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03006443     Document Type: Article

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