Significance of scintigraphy for the localisation of obscure gastrointestinal bleedings

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 5015-5019

  Brünnler, Tanja ^a   Klebl, Frank ^a   Mundorff, Sascha ^b   Elilles, Christoph ^a   Reng, Michael ^c   von Korn, Hans ^d   Schölmerich, Jürgen ^a   Langgartner, Julia ^a   Grüne, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Surgery   (Germany)

^c Department of Internal Medicine Hospital Bogen ^*  (Germany)

^d Hospital Hetzelstift   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiography; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Localisation; Scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; TECHNETIUM 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SCINTISCANNING; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROVOCATION TEST; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 58149135003     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.5015     Document Type: Article

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