[Inhalation scintigraphy in the diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism].

The purpose of this report is to realize the role of inhalation scintigraphy in the diagnostics of the pulmonary thromboembolic disease, as an addition to perfusion lung scintigraphy in the assessment of the nature of perfusion disturbances discovered by the perfusion scintigram. Perfusion lung scintigraphy, in itself, is a very sensitive indicator of a recent pulmonary thromboembolism but it is not sufficiently specific. The combining of perfusion and inhalation lung scintigraphy increases the specific quality of scintigraphic examinations in the diagnostics of lung thromboembolism.