Agreement in the clinical diagnosis of pulmonary embolism;Concordancia en el diagnóstico clínico de la tromboembolia pulmonar

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 121-124

  Campo, Juan F ^a   Hernández, María J ^a   Anta, Manuela ^a   Saro, Gema ^a   Olmos, José M ^a   Riancho, José A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROBABILITY;

HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 0032482549     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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