Pulmonary atelectasis: A frequent alternative diagnosis in patients undergoing CT-PA for suspected pulmonary embolism

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 282-286

  Tsai, Kun Lin ^a   Gupta, Ekta ^a   Haramati, Linda B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHUS DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC PULMONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG COLLAPSE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ATELECTASIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2442701662     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-004-0328-5     Document Type: Article

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