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Nuclear medicine approach can be first choice for excluding pulmonary embolism in young women
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 rather than a CT angiogram, conclude authors in a paper published in the September Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
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