Single photon emission computed tomography in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Respirology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 131-137

  Soler, Xavier ^a   Hoh, Carl K ^b   Test, Victor J ^a   Kerr, Kim M ^a   Marsh, James J ^a   Morris, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Nuclear medicine; Pulmonary; Pulmonary heart disease; Pulmonary thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; XENON RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 79952254676     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2010.01867.x     Document Type: Article

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