Pulmonary embolism in young and elderly patients: Clinical characteristics, laboratory and instrumental findings and differences between age groups;Genç ve yaşli pulmoner embolili olgularimiz: Klinik özellikler, laboratuvar ve i̇nstrumental bulgular ve yaş gruplarina göre farkliliklar

Turk Toraks Dergisi

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 160-166

  Şen, Nazan ^a   Ermiş, Hilal ^a   Altinkaya, Naime ^a   Ermiş, Necip ^b   Karataşli, Meltem ^a   Ulubay, Gaye ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Age groups; Diagnosis; Elderly; Pulmonary embolism; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; TROPONIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 78650356797     PISSN: 13027808     EISSN: 13085387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5152/ttd.2010.26     Document Type: Article

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