Seasonal variations in fatal pulmonary embolism
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Fatal pulmonary embolism.
Massive pulmonary embolism is a dramatic, often fatal, event. If death is not immediate, embolectomy using cardiopulmonary bypass is feasible, and a num ber of reports have appeared in recent years attest ing to its value (1-3). However, emergency em bolectomy is not practical on a wide scale. In over 300 cases of pulmonary embolism with positive lung-scan findings, we have observed that major ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.310.6972.129b