Constipation and metaiodobenzylguanidine myocardial scintigraphy abnormality

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 185-187

  Tateno, Fuyuki ^a   Sakakibara, Ryuji ^a   Kishi, Masahiko ^a   Ogawa, Emina ^a   Takada, Nobuo ^a   Hosoe, Nobuo ^a   Suzuki, Yasuo ^a   Takahashi, Mao ^a   Uchiyama, Tomoyuki ^b   Yamamoto, Tatsuya ^b  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTIPATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84862955269     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03737.x     Document Type: Letter

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