The clinical and radiological characteristics and evolution of incidentally diagnosed pulmonary thromboembolism;Diagnóstico casual de tromboembolismo pulmonar: Descripción de las características clínicas y radiológicas y su evolución

Radiologia

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 239-243

  Tallon Guerola P ^a   Arenas Jiménez, Juan ^a   De La Hoz Rosa, J ^a   Massuti Sureda B ^a   Garcia Marco J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Incidental findings; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 46249083297     PISSN: 00338338     EISSN: 15781771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-8338(08)71970-2     Document Type: Article

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