Radionuclide imaging for the detection of cardiac infection

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 10-12

  Zhou, Dan Bing ^a   Better, Nathan ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; INDIUM 111; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG MECHANISM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSCINTIGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEUKOCYTE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORACOTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 21344461735     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2004.01.002     Document Type: Editorial

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