Relationship of parenchymal and pleural abnormalities with acute pulmonary embolism: CT findings in patients with and without embolism

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 189-196

  Karabulut, Nevzat ^a   Kiroǧlu, Yilmaz ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CT angiography; Pleural effusion; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADULT; AGED; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60849092283     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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