Assessing the clinical probability of pulmonary embolism

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 287-293

  Miniati, M ^a   Pistolesi, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pulmonary embolism, diagnosis; Pulmonary embolism, radionuclide imaging; Venous thrombosis

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ALGORITHM; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CANADA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MODEL; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEG; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0035564264     PISSN: 11243937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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