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Incidental pulmonary embolism in cancer patients: clinical characteristics and outcome – a comprehensive cancer center experience

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cancer patients undergo routine imaging studies much more than others. The widespread use of the recently introduced multi-detector CT scanners has resulted in an increasing number of incidentally diagnosed pulmonary embolism (PE) in asymptomatic cancer patients. The signi...

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Autores principales: Abdel-Razeq, Hikmat N, Mansour, Asem H, Ismael, Yousef M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3064456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21468175
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/VHRM.S17947