Massive pulmonary embolism without symptoms demonstrated by radionuclide imaging with thromboemboli in both main pulmonary arteries

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 465-468

  Shih, Wei Jen ^a   Pulmano, Calixto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M; XENON 133;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMBOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE;

HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO; XENON RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0029896834     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199606000-00007     Document Type: Article

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