High incidence of isolated subsegmental pulmonary emboli on multi-slice spiral CT: A comparative clinical study [9]

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 914-915

  Thomeer, Maarten G J ^a   Pattynama, Peter M T ^a   Hartmann, Ieneke J C ^a,b   Kieft, Gerald J ^c   Van Strijen, Marco J L ^d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c LEYENBURG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33646447686     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH06-01-0029     Document Type: Letter

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