Postoperative Pulmonary Embolism After Hospital Discharge: An Underestimated Risk

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 310-313

  Huber, Olivier ^a   Bounameaux, Henri ^a   Borst, Francois ^a   Rohner, Adrien ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BANDAGES; HEPARIN; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 0026588954     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1992.01420030076014     Document Type: Article

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