The prevalence of deep venous thrombosis in patients with suspected paradoxical embolism

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 461-465

  Stöllberger, Claudia ^a   Slany, Jörg ^a   Schuster, Irmgard ^a   Leitner, Hermann ^a   Winkler, Walther Benedikt ^a   Karnik, Ronald ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; LEG THROMBOSIS; MALE; POPLITEAL VEIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 0027451878     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-119-6-199309150-00003     Document Type: Article

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