Thoracic ultrasound for diagnosing pulmonary embolism: A prospective multicenter study of 352 patients

Chest

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1531-1538

  Mathis, Gebhard ^a,f   Blank, Wolfgang ^a   Reißig, Angelika ^a   Lechleitner, Peter ^b   Reuß, Joachim ^c   Schuler, Andreas ^d   Beckh, Sonja ^e  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Bezirkskrankenhaus Lienz   (Austria)

^c Kreiskrankenhaus Böblingen   (Germany)

^d Helfensteinklinik Geislingen   (Germany)

^e KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

^f Klinik Innere Medizin 4   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chest ultrasound; Echocardiography; Pulmonary embolism; Spiral CT; Ultrasonography; Vein Duplex

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG VEIN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

EID: 23844496503     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.128.3.1531     Document Type: Article

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