Pulmonary embolism after lung resection: Diagnosis and treatment

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 599-601

  Kameyama, Kotaro ^a   Huang, Cheng Long ^a   Liu, Dage ^a   Okamoto, Taku ^a   Hayashi, Eiichi ^a   Yamamoto, Yasumichi ^a   Yokomise, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MONTEPLASE; UROKINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042659217     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00005-5     Document Type: Article

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