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. 2013 Jul 2:347:f3368.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3368.

When a test is too good: how CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found

Renda Soylemez Wiener  1 , Lisa M Schwartz, Steven Woloshin
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When a test is too good: how CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found

Renda Soylemez Wiener et al. BMJ. .
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Incidence, mortality, and case fatality of pulmonary embolism in United States, 1993-2006.
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Computed tomography pulmonary angiogram showing a small pulmonary embolism
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