Twenty-one-year trends in the use of inferior vena cava filters

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1541-1545

  Stein, Paul D ^a   Kayali, Fadi ^a   Olson, Ronald E ^b,c  

^a ST JOSEPH MERCY OAKLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT INDICATION; VENA CAVA FILTER;

HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; UNITED STATES; VENA CAVA FILTERS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 3242815247     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.164.14.1541     Document Type: Article

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