Is it sufficient to quantify aspiration for predicting aspiration pneumonia?

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 236-239

  Parrilla, Claudio ^a,c   Valenza, Venanzio ^a,b   Calò, Lea ^a   Passali, Giulio Cesare ^a   Castaldi, Paola ^a   Galli, Jacopo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS SCINTISCANNING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PREDICTION; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK FACTORS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 39749148986     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31815969d2     Document Type: Article

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