In cases of suspected pulmonary embolism, if the clinical symptoms and scintigraphic findings on lung scan point strongly to unilateral disease, is it always necessary to perform pulmonary angiography bilaterally if the angiogram on the more suspicious side is negative?
| Autor: | L Skibo, Stephen T. Kee |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Incidence Angiography Anticoagulants Suspected pulmonary embolism General Medicine Lung scan Sensitivity and Specificity Unilateral disease Diagnosis Differential Radiographic Image Enhancement Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio medicine Pulmonary angiography Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology Pulmonary Embolism Radionuclide Imaging Tomography X-Ray Computed business Lung |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Roentgenology. 167:1339-1339 |
| ISSN: | 1546-3141 0361-803X |
| DOI: | 10.2214/ajr.167.5.8911210 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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