Spiral-CT-angiography of acute pulmonary embolism: Factors that influence the implementation into standard diagnostic algorithms;Spiral-CT-angiographie zur diagnose der akuten pulmonalembolie: Welche faktoren beeinflussen die implementierung in standardalgorithmen?

Radiologe

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 248-255

  Bankier, A ^a   Herold, C J ^a   Fleischmann, D ^a   Janata Schwatczek, K ^b  

^a UNIV KLIN FÜR RADIODIAGNOSTIK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Acute pulmonary embolism; Availability; Cost effectiveness studies; Diagnostic algorithms; Spiral CT angiography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031970628     PISSN: 0033832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001170050351     Document Type: Article

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