Clinicians' response to radiologists' reports of isolated subsegmental pulmonary embolism or inconclusive interpretation of pulmonary embolism using MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 623-628

  Eyer, Benjamin A ^a   Goodman, Lawrence R ^a   Washington, Lacey ^a  

^a FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 15944410658     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.2.01840623     Document Type: Article

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