Subsegmental pulmonary embolism: Is the emperor still naked?;L'embolia polmonare subsegmentaria isolata: l'imperatore è ancora nudo?

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 901-908

  Zompatori, Maurizio ^a   Attinà, Domenico ^a   Niro, Fabio ^a   Palareti, Gualtiero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLEEDING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; HUMAN; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EDITORIAL; LUNG EMBOLISM;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANTS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84890309439     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-013-0966-3     Document Type: Review

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