Acute and chronic pulmonary emboli: angiography-CT correlation.
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 findings with MDCT.


CONCLUSIONS
CT and angiography have complementary roles in the accurate diagnosis of acute and chronic thromboembolic disease. Conventional angiography should be used as a problem-solving technique after CT angiography has been performed because CT angiography is less invasive.
Wittram
Conrad
C
Department of Thoracic Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Founders 202, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02115, USA. cwittram@partners.org
Kalra
Mannudeep K
MK
Maher
Michael M
MM
Greenfield
Alan
A
McLoud
Theresa C
TC
Shepard
Jo-Anne O
JA
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed