Multiple lower-extremity and pelvic fractures increase pulmonary embolus risk

Orthopedics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Godzik, Jakub ^a   McAndrew, Christopher M ^a   Morshed, Saam ^b   Kandemir, Utku ^b   Kelly, Michael P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LEG FRACTURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OBESITY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FRACTURES, BONE; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PELVIC GIRDLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC BONES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903388867     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: 19382367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20140528-50     Document Type: Article

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