Clinical impact of findings supporting an alternative diagnosis on CT pulmonary angiography in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism

Chest

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1893-1899

  Van Es, Josien ^a   Douma, Renée A ^a   Schreuder, Sanne M ^a   Middeldorp, Saskia ^a   Kamphuisen, Pieter W ^b   Gerdes, Victor E A ^a,c   Beenen, Ludo F M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c SLOTERVAART HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LUNG DISEASES; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84890304407     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-0157     Document Type: Article

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