Review of 6-month mortality following low-probability lung scans

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 349-352

  Rajendran, Joseph G ^a   Jacobson, Arnold F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Nuclear Medicine (115)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 0033593921     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.4.349     Document Type: Article

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