Occult cancer in patients with venous thromboembolism: Which patients, which cancers

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1316-1318

  Monreal, Manuel ^a   Fernandez Llamazares, Jaume ^a   Perandreu, Joan ^a   Urrutia, Agustin ^a   Sahuquillo, Joan Carles ^a   Contel, Elena ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UTERUS CANCER; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0030856862     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1657740     Document Type: Article

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