Routine CT venography after CT for pulmonary embolism: Evidence-based radiology or hemorrhage from anticoagulation of false-positive deep venous thrombosis? [1]

Radiology

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 945-946

  Nyman, Ulf R O ^a   Jacobsson, Bo ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY ARTERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33846653799     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2413052078     Document Type: Letter

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