Tomografía computarizada en espiral para la embolia pulmonar aguda

U Joseph Schoepf1, Samuel Z Goldhaber, Philip Costello

  • 1Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, Mass 02115, USA. schoepf@bwh.harvard.edu

Circulation
|May 12, 2004
PubMed
Resumen

La imagen diagnóstica óptima para la embolia pulmonar aguda sigue siendo objeto de debate. La TC en espiral multidetector muestra resultados prometedores, mejorando la detección de embolias centrales y periféricas, convirtiéndose potencialmente en el nuevo estándar de atención.

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