PULMONARY EMBOLISM
Guest Editors: Pistolesi M. and Pupi A. 

The Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2001 December;45(4):302-10

Copyright © 2009 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English

Venous thromboembolic disease: CT evaluation

Goodman L. R.

From the Department of Diagnostic Radiology Pulmonary Medicine and Intensive Care Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Helical and mul­ti­de­tec­tor CT has prov­en to be a val­u­able imag­ing modal­ity for ­both pul­mo­nary embo­lism and ­deep ­venous throm­bo­sis. This ­paper ­will ­review the sen­si­tiv­ity and spec­i­fic­ity of CT and dis­cuss diag­nos­tic algo­rithms uti­liz­ing CT and ­more estab­lished imag­ing tech­nol­o­gies.