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Too Much Medicine
When a test is too good: how CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found
BMJ 2013; 347 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f3368 (Published 02 July 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;347:f3368Related articles
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