Importance of risk factors for the evaluation of patients with a suspected pulmonary embolism

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2281-2284

  Gruettner, Joachim ^a   Viergutz, Tim ^a   Bolte, Merle ^a   Henzler, Thomas ^a   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^a   Sudarski, Sonja ^a   Apfaltrer, Paul ^a   Walter, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Pulmonary embolism; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; THROMBOPHILIA;

EID: 84928163085     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2015.2395     Document Type: Article

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