Importance of Heparin Provocation and SPECT/CT in Detecting Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding on 99mTc-RBC Scintigraphy: A Case Report.

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Published in Medicine (Baltimore) on August 01, 2015

Authors

Mahdi Haghighatafshar1, Farshid Gheisari, Tahereh Ghaedian

Author Affiliations

1: From the Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

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