Radionuclide gastroesophageal motor studies

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1004-1028

  Mariani, Giuliano ^a   Boni, Giuseppe ^a   Barreca, Marco ^b   Bellini, Massimo ^a   Fattori, Bruno ^a   Alsharif, Abedallatif ^a   Grosso, Mariano ^a   Stasi, Cristina ^a   Costa, Francesco ^a   Anselmino, Marco ^b   Marchi, Santino ^a   Rubello, Domenico ^c   Strauss, H William ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c S Maria della Misericordia Rovigo Hospital   (Italy)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical algorithms; Diagnosis and monitoring; Functional disorders; Motility disorders; Quantitative parameters; Radionuclide transit studies; Upper digestive tract

Indexed keywords

NANOCOLLOID TC 99M; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM 99M; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; BILE REFLUX; BREATH ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHAGIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROGASTROGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS SCINTISCANNING; ESOPHAGUS SPASM; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; ISOTOPE LABELING; MANOMETRY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCLERODERMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH FUNCTION; STOMACH MOTILITY; SWALLOWING; ANIMAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RADIOISOTOPE DILUTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 3242671765     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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