PET demonstration of left atrial appendage in chronic atrial fibrillation

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 177-179

  Nguyen, Ba D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrial appendage; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 13944265521     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200503000-00006     Document Type: Article

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