title: [The role of spiral computer tomography in diagnostic algorithms in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism].
abstract: The recognizing of the EP is still not satisfied because specifity and sensitivity of clinical symptoms is relatively low. SCT is an important examination in the diagnostic of pulmonary embolism and is the alternative to often nonconclusive scintigraphy and conclusive but invasive pulmonary angiography. The authors describe the role of SCT in the diagnostic algorithm of the suspected pulmonary embolism of the high and not high risk, discuss the interpretation of result of SCT due to the sort of SCT (SDCT or MDCT) and to clinical probability of PE and they discuss the problem of subsegmental PE.
authors.affiliation: Wrovasc--Zintegrowane Centrum Medycyny, Sercowo Naczyniowej, Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny we Wrocławiu, Ośrodek Badawczo-Rozwojowy. rerom@wp.pl
authors.forename: Renata
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Romaszkiewicz
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lewczuk
authors.forename: Agata
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kaczmarzyk-Radka
authors.forename: Lucyna
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lenartowska
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Błaszczyk
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Konieczny
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Witkiewicz
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed