Westermark's and Palla's signs in acute pulmonary embolism

Circulation

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Sreenivasan, Shiva ^a,b   Bennett, Sarah ^a   Parfitt, Vernon J ^a  

^a NORTH BRISTOL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE MARKER; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE; PALLA SIGN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WESTERMARK SIGN; ACUTE DISEASE; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ACUTE DISEASE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 33847314570     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.665422     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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