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ANNALS OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE, vol.17, no.2, pp.145-148, 2003 (SCI-Expanded)
The most common indication for radionuclide imaging of lungs is the evaluation of suspected pulmonary thromboembolism (PE). Scintigraphically PE classically produces ventilation/perfusion mismatch, that is perfusion defects in areas showing normal ventilation. Stripe sign refers to the visualization a stripe at normally per-fused lung interposed between a defect and adjacent pleural surfaces as originally described by Gottschalk.