Caught in the web: E-diagnosis

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 262-266

  Tokuda, Yasuharu ^a   Aoki, Makoto ^b   Kandpal, Saurabh B ^c   Tierney Jr , Laurence M ^d  

^a ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Sakura Seiki Company   (Japan)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

M PROTEIN; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PREDNISOLONE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; POEMS SYNDROME; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; WEB BROWSER;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; POEMS SYNDROME; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 67649491439     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.462     Document Type: Article

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