Bedside transthoracic sonography in suspected pulmonary embolism: A new tool for emergency physicians

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Hoffmann, Beatrice ^a,b   Gullett, John P ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOGRAPHY;

AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78349265344     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00831.x     Document Type: Article

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