Newer Modalities for Detection of Pulmonary Emboli

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 10 SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Clemens, Seth ^a   Leeper Jr , Kenneth V ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Diagnosis; Magnetic resonance angiography; Pulmonary embolism; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG VENTILATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34748896559     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2007.07.014     Document Type: Article

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