Clinical presentation of acute pulmonary embolism: Survey of 800 cases

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Miniati, Massimo ^a,b   Cenci, Caterina ^b   Monti, Simonetta ^c   Poli, Daniela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Careggi   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTPATIENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

SYNCOPE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHEST PAIN; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; ITALY; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY MEDICINE; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SYNCOPE;

EID: 84857522805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030891     Document Type: Article

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