Overdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism by pulmonary CT angiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 271-277

  Hutchinson, Barry Donald ^a   Navin, Patrick ^a   Marom, Edith M ^b   Truong, Mylene T ^b   Bruzzi, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifact; False positive; Misdiagnosis; Pulmonary CT angiography; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; IRELAND; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84938693658     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.14.13938     Document Type: Article

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