Characteristic crescentic subpleural lung zones with high ventilation (V)/perfusion (Q) ratios in interstitial pneumonia on V/Q quotient SPECT

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 881-889

  Suga, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kawakami, Yasuhiko ^a   Koikeb, Masahiro ^b   Iwanaga, Hideyuki ^b   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^b  

^a St Hill Hospital   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interstitial pneumonia; Pulmonary perfusion; Pulmonary ventilation; Single photon emission computed tomography; V Q quotient single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; MACROSALB TC 99M; TECHNEGAS; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE; OXYGEN TENSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 73249132945     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328330571d     Document Type: Article

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