Pulmonary embolism after injury: More common than we think?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1244-1249

  Menaker, Jay ^a   Stein, Deborah M ^a   Scalea, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Incidence; Injury; Pulmonary embolism; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; LEG INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE INJURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX INJURY; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADULT; BALTIMORE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 73949096813     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31818c173a     Document Type: Article

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