Noninvasive diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

Haematologica

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 328-331

  Perrier, Arnaud ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 0031466603     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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