Pulmonary Embolism
Nuclear medicine approach can be first choice for excluding pulmonary embolism in young women
Published in State and Local Health Law Weekly, September 27th, 2007
“A V/Q scan can be the first choice—but the CT angiogram is the classic choice—for diagnosing a pulmonary embolism,” noted H. Dirk Sostman, a professor of radiology and executive vice dean at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and chief academic officer at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. “A ‘very low probability’ V/Q lung scan—together with a ‘low...
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