Pulmonary embolism: Role of ventilation-perfusion scintigraphy

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 82-87

  Onyedika, Chukwuemeka ^a   Glaser, Joseph E ^a,b   Freeman, Leonard M ^a  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ALGORITHM; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMFORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; PATIENT COMFORT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; PERFUSION IMAGING; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY VENTILATION;

EID: 84874072796     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: 15584623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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