The diagnosis of brain death - Own experience

Nuclear Medicine Review

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 132-137

  Kraft, Otakar ^a   Samlík, Jiří ^a   Chmelová, Jana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Brain death; Brain scintigraphy; Cerebral angiography; Organ donor; Organ transplantation

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN STEM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34247566067     PISSN: 15069680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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