Meteorological parameters and seasonal variations in pulmonary thromboembolism

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1035-1041

  Öztuna, Funda ^a   Özsu, Savaş ^a   Topbaş, Murat ^a   Bülbül, Yilmaz ^a   Koşucu, Polat ^a   Özlü, Tevfik ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AUTUMN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE;

AGED; AIR PRESSURE; ANGIOGRAPHY; CLIMATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; TURKEY;

EID: 54349118866     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2007.12.010     Document Type: Article

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