Current approach to the diagnosis of acute nonmassive pulmonary embolism

Chest

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 509-518

  Moores, Lisa K ^a   King, Christopher S ^b   Holley, Aaron B ^c  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; D DIMER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHM; ANTICOAGULATION; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPRESSION ECHOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; LEG PHLEBOGRAPHY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 80051519013     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-2468     Document Type: Review

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