Diagnosis of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Comparison of ventilation/perfusion scanning and multidetector computed tomography pulmonary angiography with pulmonary angiography

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 459-463

  He, Jia ^a   Fang, Wei ^a   Lv, Bin ^b   He, Jian Guo ^a   Xiong, Chang Ming ^a   Liu, Zhi Hong ^a   He, Zuo Xiang ^a  

^a FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^b Departments of Radiology   (China)

Author keywords

chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; computed tomography pulmonary angiogram; ventilation perfusion scan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 84862789775     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32835085d9     Document Type: Article

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