Gender-associated findings in postmortem examinations of elderly patients: An increased rate of pulmonary embolism in women

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 340-342

  Leibovitz, Arthur ^a,b   Blumenfeld, Ofer ^a,b   Segal, Rephael ^a,b   Lubart, Emily ^a,b   Baumoehl, Yehuda ^a,b   Habot, Beni ^a,b  

^a Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elderly women; Gender association; Postmortem examination; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; GERIATRICS; PATIENT MONITORING; PULMONARY DISEASES;

POSTMORTEM EXAMINATIONS;

PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENDER; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PANCREATITIS; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PUBLISHING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; MALE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038660167     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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