Imaging in acute pulmonary embolism with special clinical scenarios

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 491-500

  Hunsaker, Andetta R ^a   Lu, Michael T ^a,b   Goldhaber, Samuel Z ^a   Rybicki, Frank J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955501243     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.109.855981     Document Type: Review

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