Clinical usefulness of D-dimer in cancer patients with suspected pulmonary embolism

S. de Lucia, D. Aujesky, J. Cornuz, P. de Moerloose, P. M. Roy, H. Bounameaux, A. Perrier (Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland; Angers, France)

Source: Annual Congress 2003 - Pulmonary thromboembolism
Session: Pulmonary thromboembolism
Session type: Poster Discussion
Number: 1482
Disease area: Pulmonary vascular diseases

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