ACR Appropriateness Criteria® on Chronic Dyspnea: Suspected Pulmonary Origin

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages W21-W23

  Dyer, Debra Sue ^a   Khan, Arfa R ^a   Mohammed, Tan Lucien ^a   Amorosa, Judith K ^a   Batra, Poonam V ^a   Gurney, Jud W ^a   Jeudy, Jean ^a   Kaiser, Larry ^a   MacMahon, Heber ^a   Raoof, Suhail ^a   Vydareny, Kay H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Appropriateness Criteria; Breathlessness; Chronic dyspnea; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Dyspnea; Interstitial lung disease; Shortness of breath

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; EMPHYSEMA; EXHALATION; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DYSPNEA; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952411586     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: 15360237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RTI.0b013e3181d9cce4     Document Type: Review

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