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I have left chest pain that radiates to my back with worse pain with deep breaths. have elevated d dimer but negative ct scan for pe.
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Sounds OK.: The CT scan would generally be more accurate than the d-dimer for diagnosis of PE.
Answered 11/11/2015
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