Massive pulmonary embolism and pharmacological-mechanical thrombolysis: Report of a case treated by mechanical catheter fragmentation;Embolia polmonare e massiva e trombolisi farmaco-meccanica: Descrizione di un caso trattato con l'ausilio di un trombolizzatore

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 108-113

  Pieri, Stefano ^a,b   Morucci, Maurizio ^a   Agresti, Paolo ^a   De' Medici, Lorenzo ^a  

^a SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; UROKINASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; CATHETERIZATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0141989914     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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