Can a negative D-dimer result rule out acute aortic dissection?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-376

  Brown, Michael D ^a   Newman, David H ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

AORTA DISSECTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMBASE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 80053271517     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.04.016     Document Type: Editorial

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