Nuclear cardiac imaging for the assessment of coronary artery disease in the elderly

American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 355-362

  Miller, Todd D ^a   DiCarli, Marcelo F ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGE; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 39049113574     PISSN: 10767460     EISSN: 1751715X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1076-7460.2007.07640.x     Document Type: Review

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