Acute calf vein thrombosis: Outcomes and implications

American Surgeon

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1124-1128

  Kazmers, Andris ^a,b   Groehn, Harvey ^a   Meeker, Chris ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 0032758341     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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