Use of D-dimer and lower extremity doppler ultrasound results to obviate the need for computerised tomographic pulmonary angiography

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 858-863

  Mukhopadhyay, Amartya ^a   Venkatesh, Sudhakar ^a   Goh, Poh Sun ^a   Lim, Tow Keang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

CTPA; D dimer; Doppler ultrasound; Spiral CT

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; LEG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33847708288     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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