Venous thromboembolism and occult malignancy: Simultaneous detection during pulmonary CT angiography with CT venography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 885-889

  Bierry, Guillaume ^a   Holl, Nathalie ^a   Kellner, Frauke ^b   Riehm, Sophie ^a   Roedlich, Marie Noelle ^a   Greget, Michel ^a   Veillon, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CT venography; Occult malignancy; Pulmonary CT angiography; Venous thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECTUM CANCER; SPINE METASTASIS; STOMACH CANCER; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 51349147651     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3516     Document Type: Article

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