Pulmonary Embolism in Outpatients With Pleuritic Chest Pain

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 838-844

  Hull, Russell D ^a   Raskob, Gary E ^a   Carter, Cedric J ^a   Coates, Geoffrey ^a   Gill, Gerald J ^a   Sackett, David L ^a   Hirsh, Jack ^a   Thompson, Margo ^a  

^a Department of Medicine Chedoke McMaster Hospitals ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; OUTPATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; PLEURISY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 84942185036     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1988.00380040078014     Document Type: Article

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