A 50-year-old woman attends A&E with pleuritic chest pain and breathlessness 5 days after starting Tamoxifen for breast cancer. She is tachycardic and...

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A 50-year-old woman attends A&E with pleuritic chest pain and breathlessness 5 days after starting Tamoxifen for breast cancer. She is tachycardic and has a high Wells score. What is the most appropriate initial imaging investigation?

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CT pulmonary angiography

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Ventilation-perfusion scan as first-line for all patients

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Transthoracic echocardiogram

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Chest X-ray only

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Coronary angiography

uk-plab-1 MCQ (SBA): Pulmonary embolism – diagnosis

A 50-year-old woman attends A&E with pleuritic chest pain and breathlessness 5 days after starting Tamoxifen for breast cancer. She is tachycardic and has a high Wells score. What is the most appropriate initial imaging investigation?