Acute pulmonary embolism: Comparison and integration of perfusion lung scintigraphy with multislice spiral CT;La diagnosi di embolia polmonare acuta: Confronto ed integrazione tra la scintigrafia polmonare perfusiva e TC spirale multistrato

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 174-184

  Rubini, G ^a   Niccoli Asabella, A ^a   Stabile Ianora, A A ^a   Rubini, D ^a   Gaudiano, A ^a   Angelelli, G ^a   Rotondo, A ^a  

^a POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute Pulmonary embolism; Diagnostics of urgency imagings; Perfusion lung scintigraphy; Spiral computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947527576     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-007-0133-9     Document Type: Article

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