Assessment of digital ischaemia and evaluation of response to therapy by 99mtc sestamibi limb scintigraphy after local cooling of the hands in patients with vasospastic raynaud's syndrome

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-211

  Sarkaya, Ali ^a   Ege, Turan ^a   Frat, Mehmet Fatih ^b   Duran, Enver ^b  

^a Department of Nuclear Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b Trakya University Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

99mTc sestamibi; Scintigraphy; Vasospastic Raynaud's syndrome

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NIFEDIPINE;

ADULT; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL ARTERY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LIMB PERFUSION; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SCINTIGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATER IMMERSION;

ADULT; COLD; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RAYNAUD DISEASE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI;

EID: 1542314883     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200402000-00019     Document Type: Article

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