A study suggests the potential clinical use of a diagnostic strategy for ruling out pulmonary embolism based on D-dimer testing and multidetector-row CT without lower-limb ultrasonography.

Introduction Whole-body low-dose multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) can be used to assess myeloma bone disease, because it can depict lytic bone lesions as well as extramedullary lesions.

In a study from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the multidetector CT, which takes 4 different images at the same time, imaged 20 trauma victims from head to pelvis in a single pass and ...

Early myocardial enhancement defects (dark spots) on multidetector CT are valuable predictors of myocardial viability in patients who have suffered a heart attack, reported doctors from the ...