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Advances in diagnosing and excluding pulmonary embolism: spiral CT and D-dimer measurement
Teresa L Carman1, Steven R Deitcher
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA.
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|September 12, 2002
Abstract:
No single imaging study or blood test is 100% sensitive and specific for pulmonary embolism. A combination of pretest clinical probability assessment, noninvasive pulmonary imaging (V/Q scanning or spiral CT), and D-dimer testing seems prudent before pursuing pulmonary angiography.