Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-50

  Kuriakose, Jean ^a   Patel, Smita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

CT pulmonary angiography; CT venography; Pulmonary embolism; Radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHM; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTIFACT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BOLUS INJECTION; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INFARCTION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; TECHNIQUE; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTIFACTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 71149093144     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2009.10.002     Document Type: Review

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