Findings of hepatopulmonary syndrome on breath-hold perfusion SPECT-CT fusion images

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 413-419

  Suga, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kawakami, Yasuhiko ^a   Iwanaga, Hideyuki ^b   Tokuda, Osamu ^b   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^b  

^a St Hill Hospital   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatopulmonary syndrome; Pulmonary perfusion; Right to left shunt; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M; XENON 133;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUBBING FINGERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPNEA; GYNECOMASTIA; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; TELANGIECTASIA;

AGED; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67651161890     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-009-0250-8     Document Type: Article

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