Assessment of total thrombus load in symptomatic patients with venous thromboembolism

Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 369-372

  Parakh, R ^a   Kapadia, S ^a   Agarwal, S ^a   Grover, T ^a   Bukhari, S ^a   Yadav, A ^a   Sen, I ^a   Pankaj, P ^a  

^a SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Anticoagulants; Deep venous thrombosis; Pulmonary embolism; Venography; Ventilation perfusion scan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG PHLEBOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; THROMBUS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 33748745018     PISSN: 10760296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1076029606291408     Document Type: Article

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