Suspected pulmonary embolism: Enhancement of pulmonary arteries at deep-inspiration CT angiography - Influence of patent foramen ovale and atrial-septal defect

Radiology

Volumn 226, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 749-755

  Henk, Christine B ^a,c   Grampp, Stephan ^a   Linnau, Kenneth F ^a   Thurnher, Majda M ^a   Czerny, Christian ^a   Herold, Christian J ^a   Mostbeck, Gerhard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b OTTO WAGNER HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Computed tomography (CT); Embolism; Foramen ovale; Helical; Pulmonary

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL; IOPAMIDOL; IOPROMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATTENUATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STUDENT T TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INHALATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 0037370025     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2263012200     Document Type: Article

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