The diagnostic value of oesophageal transit scintigraphy for evaluating the severity of oesophageal complications in systemic sclerosis

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 375-381

  Nakajima, Kenichi ^a   Kawano, Masaya ^a   Kinuya, Keiko ^a   Sato, Shinichi ^b   Takehara, Kazuhiko ^b   Tonami, Norihisa ^a  

^a Departments of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Condensed image; Oesophageal transit scintigraphy; Retention fraction; Skin score; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYNAMICS; ESOPHAGEAL TRANSIT SCINTIGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS SCINTISCANNING; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT POSITIONING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SITTING; SKIN DISEASE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TIME;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2142642302     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200404000-00010     Document Type: Article

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