Confirmation of brain death using brain radionuclide perfusion imaging technique

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 267-272

  Al Shammri, S ^a   Al Feeli, M ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b MUBARAK AL KABEER HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Brain death; Brain radionuclide perfusion; Kuwait

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 4444233367     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079525     Document Type: Article

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