Nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging in stable angina pectoris
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Nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging in stable angina pectoris
Every day physicians balance clinical information with medical test results when confronted with symptomatic patients. Sometimes they find themselves in an apparently contradicting situation in which a patient has persistent complaints while his or her medical tests are normal. In this issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal, Yokota et al. addressed this matter in the setting of stable angina pe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Netherlands Heart Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1568-5888,1876-6250
DOI: 10.1007/s12471-018-1105-5