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Joe
09-10-2007, 02:12 AM
Young women at risk of having a pulmonary embolism?a potential life-threatening blockage in a lung artery?should first undergo a ventilation/perfusion lung scan (V/Q scan) rather than a CT (computed tomography) angiogram, conclude authors in a paper published in the September Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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