Current role of lung scintigraphy in pulmonary embolism

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 294-301

  Giordano, A ^a   Angiolillo, D J ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pulmonary embolism, diagnosis; Pulmonary embolism, radionuclide imaging; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 0035562561     PISSN: 11243937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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