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Value of venous color flow duplex scan as initial screening test for geriatric inpatients with clinically suspected pulmonary embolism
AIM: The contribution of lower extremity venous duplex scan to the diagnostic strategy for pulmonary embolism has been demonstrated by many authors. However, the positive diagnostic value of this noninvasive test in clinically suspected pulmonary embolism is not very high (10%–18%). Since thromboemb...
Autores principales: | Kreidy, Raghid, Stephan, Elias, Salameh, Pascale, Waked, Mirna |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180512/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21966223 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/VHRM.S23913 |
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