The role of nuclear medicine in the detection of acute gastrointestinal bleeding

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-146

  Howarth, Douglas M ^a,b  

^a Hunter Imaging Group   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN TC 99M; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CIMETIDINE; GLUCAGON; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; INDIUM 111; MUCIN; PENTAGASTRIN; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; RANITIDINE; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE; TECHNETIUM 99M; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BARIUM ENEMA; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG UPTAKE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOMA; HEMOBILIA; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE TUMOR; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LAPAROTOMY; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN RUPTURE; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH SECRETION; ULCER; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 33644616513     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2005.11.001     Document Type: Review

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