The Current and Continuing Important Role of Ventilation-Perfusion Scintigraphy in Evaluating Patients With Suspected Pulmonary Embolism

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 432-440

  Freeman, Leonard M ^a   Stein, Evan G ^a   Sprayregen, Seymour ^a   Chamarthy, Murthy ^a   Haramati, Linda B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 52949098276     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2008.07.001     Document Type: Review

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