CTPA Tied to Overtreatment of Clots in Lungs

Although the detection of pulmonary embolism (PE) may be enhanced by computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA), the test carries the danger of over-diagnosis and overtreatment, so a time trend analysis using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample and Multiple Cause-of-Death databases was performed to evaluate CTPA's effects on national PE incidence in the United States.

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• wo 18 mei 2011 12:09