Current challenges in diagnostic imaging of venous thromboembolism

Blood

Volumn 126, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 2376-2382

  Huisman, Menno V ^a   Klok, Frederikus A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVITAMIN K; D DIMER; LISINOPRIL; NADROPARIN; SIMVASTATIN; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOPPLER ECHO; ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; THROMBOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VERY ELDERLY; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84948960907     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-05-640979     Document Type: Review

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