Asymptomatic large main pulmonary artery thromboembolism with a low-probability ventilation-perfusion lung scan.
The incidence of the interpretation of low-probability lung scans in asymptomatic patients with large central pulmonary embolisms and the prognostic implication of the ventilation-perfusion scan appearance in this clinical setting is not documented.
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Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Out Patient Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-0817, USA. ccivelek@jhmi.edu
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D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011336:Probability; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014692:Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio; D014980:Xenon Radioisotopes
D014980:Xenon Radioisotopes