CT angiography of pulmonary embolism: diagnostic criteria and causes of misdiagnosis

C Wittram, MM Maher, AJ Yoo, MK Kalra… - Radiographics, 2004 - pubs.rsna.org
Computed tomographic (CT) pulmonary angiography is becoming the standard of care at
many institutions for the evaluation of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism. This …

Overdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism by pulmonary CT angiography

BD Hutchinson, P Navin, EM Marom… - American journal of …, 2015 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the rate of overdiagnosis of pulmonary
embolism (PE) by pulmonary CT angiography (CTA) in a tertiary-care university hospital …

The Indeterminate CT Pulmonary Angiogram: Imaging Characteristics and Patient Clinical Outcome1

SE Jones, C Wittram - Radiology, 2005 - pubs.rsna.org
PURPOSE: To retrospectively review imaging characteristics of indeterminate computed
tomographic (CT) pulmonary angiograms for pulmonary embolism (PE) and patient …

Management of Suspected Acute Pulmonary Embolism in the Era of CT Angiography: A Statement from the Fleischner Society1

M Remy-Jardin, M Pistolesi, LR Goodman, WB Gefter… - Radiology, 2007 - pubs.rsna.org
(CT) angiography in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) has dramatically increased
as a consequence of major advances in CT technology. The question now no longer …

CT angiography for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: state of the art

UJ Schoepf, P Costello - Radiology, 2004 - pubs.rsna.org
In daily clinical routine, computed tomography (CT) has practically become the first-line
modality for imaging of pulmonary circulation in patients suspected of having pulmonary …

Acute and chronic pulmonary emboli: angiography–CT correlation

C Wittram, MK Kalra, MM Maher… - American Journal of …, 2006 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to review the classic direct and indirect
angiographic signs of acute and chronic pulmonary embolism (PE) and correlate these …

Safety of pulmonary angiography in the 1990s

DA Zuckerman, KM Sterling, RF Oser - Journal of Vascular and …, 1996 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To examine the safety of pulmonary angiography with low-osmolar contrast
material and modern angiographic techniques and to analyze periprocedural complications …

How I do it: CT pulmonary angiography

C Wittram - American journal of roentgenology, 2007 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to describe the techniques to improve motion
artifacts, vascular enhancement, flow artifacts, body habitus image noise, vascular …

[PDF][PDF] CT evaluation of pulmonary embolism: technique and interpretation.

RS Kuzo, LR Goodman - AJR. American journal of …, 1997 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
H elical and electron beam CT technology have made it possible to image the thorax in a
short period of time, often during a single breath-hold. With these rapid scanning techniques …

Accuracy of CT in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: a systematic literature review

J Eng, JA Krishnan, JB Segal… - American Journal of …, 2004 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. We sought to summarize systematically the published evidence describing the
accuracy of contrast-enhanced helical CT for diagnosing pulmonary embolism. MATERIALS …