Planar ventilation-perfusion imaging for pulmonary embolism: The case for "outcomes" medicine

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-10

  Freeman, Leonard M ^a   Glaser, Joseph E ^a   Haramati, Linda B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; RADIATION DOSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 81855183693     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: 15584623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2011.07.003     Document Type: Review

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