Transthoracic sonography for the detection of pulmonary embolism - A meta-analysis

Ultraschall in der Medizin

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 150-156

  Niemann, Tilo ^a   Egelhof, T ^a   Bongartz, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Embolism thrombosis; Technology assessment; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; META ANALYSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION PROTECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 67649200220     PISSN: 01724614     EISSN: 14388782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1027856     Document Type: Article

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