Improving the diagnostic performance of lung scintigraphy in suspected pulmonary embolic disease

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1010-1015

  Gleeson, F V ^a   Turner, S ^a   Scarsbrook, A F ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M; XENON 133;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750633303     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.05.017     Document Type: Article

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