The usefulness of 99mTc-hexamethylpropyleneamineoxime white blood cell scintigraphy in a patient with eosinophilic gastroenteritis

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 601-603

  Imai, Erika ^a   Kaminaga, Tatsuro ^a   Kawasugi, Kazuo ^a   Yokokawa, Tokuzo ^a   Furui, Shigeru ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

99mTc hexamethylpropyleneamineoxime (HMPAO); Eosinophilic gastroenteritis; WBC

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING COLON; EOSINOPHILIC GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; ILEUM; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MELENA; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EOSINOPHILIA; GASTROENTERITIS; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EOSINOPHILIA; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MELENA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME;

EID: 0242493000     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03006675     Document Type: Article

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