Clearance of technetium-99m-DTPA and HRCT findings in the evaluation of patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Antoniou, Katerina M ^a   Malagari, Katerina ^b   Tzanakis, Nikolaos ^a   Perisinakis, Kostas ^c   Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K ^a   Karkavitsas, Nikolaos ^c   Siafakas, Nikolaos M ^a   Bouros, Demosthenes ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AEROSOL; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG HALF LIFE; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644584300     PISSN: 14712466     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-6-4     Document Type: Article

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