High prevalence of oesophageal involvement in patients with undifferentiated connective tissue disease using radionuclide oesophageal transit scintigraphy

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1113-1117

  Gaál, János ^a   Varga, József ^b   Szabados, Lajos ^c   Garai, Ildikó ^c   Galuska, László ^c   Surányi, Péter ^c   Szegedi, Andrea ^c   Zeher, Margit ^c   Bodolay, Edit ^c  

^a Central Laboratory   (Hungary)

^b Department of Dermatology ^*  (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Oesophageal involvement; Oesophageal scintigraphy; Predictive value; UCTD

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; BETA2 GLYCOPROTEIN 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SKIN; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27944465781     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200512000-00011     Document Type: Article

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