Behcet disease with an intrapulmonary shunt

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 181-182

  Tuncel, Murat ^a   Kratl, Pnar Özgen ^a   Mahmoudian, Babak ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Behcet disease; Systemic shunt; Tc 99m MAA

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FATTY LIVER; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN; SCINTISCANNING; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

BEHCET SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 33745002921     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000202200.95569.62     Document Type: Article

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