Non-traumatic thoracic emergencies: CT venography in an integrated diagnostic strategy of acute pulmonary embolism and venous thrombosis

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1906-1921

  Ghaye, Benoit ^a   Dondelinger, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CT; Pulmonary arteries; Thrombosis; Veins; Venography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; VEIN THROMBOSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY; HISTORY; LEG; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIALS; EMERGENCIES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LEG; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036690094     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-002-1505-0     Document Type: Review

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