Preliminary results of bedside inferior vena cava filter placement: Safe and cost-effective

Chest

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 315-316

  Sing, Ronald F ^a   Smith, Charles H ^a   Miles, William S ^a   Messick, W Joseph ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effective; Thromboembolism; Vena cava filter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT INDICATION; VEIN OCCLUSION; VENA CAVA FILTER;

EID: 0031817507     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.1.315     Document Type: Article

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