Effects of age on the performance of common diagnostic tests for pulmonary embolism

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 357-361

  Righini, Marc ^a   Goehring, Catherine ^a   Bounameaux, Henri ^a   Perrier, Arnaud ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 0033804833     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(00)00493-9     Document Type: Article

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