Is it time to raise the bar? age-adjusted D-dimer cutoff levels to exclude pulmonary embolism

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 86-87

  Kirschner, Jonathan M ^a   Kline, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84902971213     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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