CT of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolus: Does iso-osmolar contrast agent improve vascular opacification?

Radiology

Volumn 234, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 923-928

  Goodman, Lawrence R ^a   Gulsun, Meltem ^a,b   Nagy, Paul ^a   Washington, Lacey ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL; IOHEXOL; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; VISIPAQUE 320;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC VENOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INJECTION; LEG VEIN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSMOLARITY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 13844320746     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2343031871     Document Type: Article

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