Characterization of the apical aneurysm of chronic Chagas' heart disease by scintigraphic image co-registration;Caracterização do aneurisma apical da cardiopatia chagásica crônica mediante uso de corregistro de imagens cintilográficas

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Simões, Marcus Vinicius ^a,b   De Oliveira, Lucas Ferrari ^a   Hiss, Flavio Cantarelli ^a   De Figueiredo, Alexandre Baldini ^a   Pintya, Antonio Osvaldo ^a   Maciel, Benedito Carlos ^a   Marin Neto, José Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas' cardiomyopathy; Chagas' disease; Heart aneurysm; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548836014     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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