Pulmonary ventilation–perfusion (V/Q) scintigraphy is one of the oldest procedures in nuclear medicine. Planar V/Q imaging was the standard of care for evaluating patients with suspected PE until the ...

All patients alive at the beginning of March 2012, and with a PE diagnosis confirmed by CT pulmonary angiogram or high probability perfusion scintigraphy, were eligible for study participation.

Lung cancer is a form of cancer wherein abnormal cells start to grow in the lungs in an uncontrolled way. According to World Cancer Research Fund, there were nearly 2.4 million new cases of lung ...