Comparison of diagnostic performance with ventilation-perfusion lung imaging in different patient populations

Radiology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 481-483

  Worsley, Daniel F ^a,b   Alavi, Abass ^a   Palevsky, Harold I ^a   Kundel, Harold L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embolism, pulmonary; Lung, radionuclide studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0029897823     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.199.2.8668799     Document Type: Article

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