High rates of symptomatic and incidental thromboembolic events in gastrointestinal cancer patients

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1879-1881

  Singh, R ^a   Sousou, T ^a   Mohile, S ^a   Khorana, Alok A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOLOGY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 77958539003     PISSN: 15387933     EISSN: 15387836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2010.03929.x     Document Type: Letter

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