The value of the chest radiograph in reporting aerosol ventilation-perfusion scans

It has become accepted practice to have a chest radiograph (CXR) available for reference at the time of reporting a ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) scan. We designed a study to determine whether the availability of a CXR altered the interpretation of V/Q scans in our unit. One hundred consecutive V/Q sc...

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Published inNuclear medicine communications Vol. 19; no. 1; p. 71
Main Authors Denton, E R, Barrington, S F, Kettle, A G, Morrison, I D, O'Doherty, M J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.01.1998
Subjects
Aerosols
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Observer Variation
Probability
Pulmonary Embolism - diagnosis
Pulmonary Embolism - diagnostic imaging
Radiography, Thoracic
Radionuclide Imaging
Radiopharmaceuticals
Reference Values
Reproducibility of Results
Retrospective Studies
Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin
Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio
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Summary:It has become accepted practice to have a chest radiograph (CXR) available for reference at the time of reporting a ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) scan. We designed a study to determine whether the availability of a CXR altered the interpretation of V/Q scans in our unit. One hundred consecutive V/Q scans were reported with and without reference to a CXR by two radiologists and two nuclear physicians. The V/Q reports were then compared. Our results show that the availability of a CXR has no effect on the V/Q scan report.
ISSN:0143-3636
DOI:10.1097/00006231-199801000-00010