Should patients be managed for suspected pulmonary embolism on the basis of pretest clinical probability and D-dimer results? [5]

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 781-

  Sijens, Paul E ^a   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

BLOOD EXAMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0037150085     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-136-10-200205210-00021     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Excluding pulmonary embolism at the bedside without diagnostic imaging: Management of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism presenting to the emergency department by using a simple clinical model and D-dimer
2. Rapid ELISA assay for plasma D-dimer in the diagnosis of segmental and subsegmental pulmonary embolism. A comparison with pulmonary angiography