Reliability of diagnosing incidental pulmonary embolism in cancer patients

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 531-534

  Den Exter, Paul L ^a   Van Der Hulle, Tom ^a   Hartmann, Ieneke J C ^b   Jiménez, David ^c   Klok, Frederikus A ^a   Huisman, Menno V ^a   Kroft, Lucia J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Maasstad Hospital   (Netherlands)

^c HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer; Diagnosis; Pulmonary embolism; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; COMORBIDITY; INCIDENCE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84940435016     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: 18792472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2015.06.027     Document Type: Article

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