Pulmonary embolism diagnosis: What role for nuclear medicine?

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 277-280

  Pistolesi, M ^a   Pupi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ALGORITHM; AWARENESS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

HUMANS; LUNG; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 0035563648     PISSN: 11243937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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