Meteorological parameters and severity of acute pulmonary embolism episodes

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 127-130

  Staśkiewicz, Grzegorz ^a   Czekajska Chehab, Elzbieta ^a   Przegaliński, Jerzy ^a   Maciejewski, Marcin ^b   Pachowicz, Marcin ^a   Drop, Andrzej ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b LUBLIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pressure; Computed tomography; Pulmonary embolism; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AUTUMN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRECIPITATION; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; VISIBILITY; WIND; WINTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEATHER;

EID: 79960369186     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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