Routine screening for silent pulmonary embolism is harmful and unnecessary

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Sommers, Benjamin D ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; SCREENING;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 78650511383     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.05.033     Document Type: Letter

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