Why can't magnetic resonance imaging reliably diagnose pulmonary embolism?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 152, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 467-469

  Davidson, Bruce L ^a   Lacrampe, Marc J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FIBROSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77951244822     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-152-7-201004060-00012     Document Type: Editorial

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