Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 179-184 , May 2010

Can plasma D-dimer predict the result of a ventilation–perfusion scan?

  • Thomas Grüning

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK
    • Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth PL6 8DH, UK. Tel.: +44 1752 792280; fax: +44 1752 783144.
    • ,
  • Mehrdad Khonsari

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, UK
    • ,
  • Gillian C. Vivian

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK
    • ,
  • Tim Nokes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hematology, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK

Received 25 January 2009 ,Accepted 22 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.05.002

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 179-184 , May 2010

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