Performance of the Wells and Revised Geneva scores for predicting pulmonary embolism

ÇALIŞIR C., Yavas U. S., Ozkan I. R., ALATAŞ F., Cevik A., Ergun N., ...More

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, vol.16, no.1, pp.49-52, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 16 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2009
  • Doi Number: 10.1097/mej.0b013e328304ae6d
  • Journal Name: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.49-52
  • Keywords: angiography, computed tomography, pulmonary embolism, thrombosis, veins, SIMPLE CLINICAL-MODEL, HELICAL CT, D-DIMER, DIAGNOSIS, ANGIOGRAPHY, OUTPATIENTS, VENOGRAPHY, EMERGENCY, SCAN
  • Eskisehir Osmangazi University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Objective The objective of the study was to compare two scoring methods to predict the risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) as diagnosed with computed tomography angiography (CTA) and/or CT venography (CTV).