Diagnosis of cirrhotic portal hypertension and compensatory circulation using transsplenic portal scintigraphy with 99mTc-phytate

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-56

  Gao, Li ^a   Yang, Fuyong ^a   Ren, Changzheng ^a   Han, Jiankui ^a   Zhao, Youan ^a   Li, Hua ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Compensatory circulation; Portal hypertension; Portal scintigraphy; Portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

PHYTATE TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRRHOTIC PORTAL HYPERTENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENIC VEIN;

AGED; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHYTIC ACID; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SPLEEN; SPLENIC VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 75149177668     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.067983     Document Type: Article

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