Spiral Computed Tomography for Acute Pulmonary Embolism
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Spiral computed tomography for acute pulmonary embolism.
There is still considerable debate about the optimal diagnostic imaging modality for acute pulmonary embolism. If imaging is deemed necessary from an initial clinical evaluation such as d-dimer testing, options include nuclear medicine scanning, catheter pulmonary angiography, and spiral CT. In many institutions, spiral CT is becoming established as the first-line imaging test in daily clinical...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000128813.04325.08