Evaluation of Acute Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: Utility of Multidetector Computed Tomography

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-114

  Jeudy, Jean ^a   White, Charles S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; RADIOISOTOPE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHEST PAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947143006     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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