Clinical presentation of acute pulmonary embolism: survey of 800 cases.

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Published in PLoS One on February 27, 2012

Authors

Massimo Miniati1, Caterina Cenci, Simonetta Monti, Daniela Poli

Author Affiliations

1: Dipartimento di Area Critica Medico Chirurgica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy. massimo.miniati@unifi.it

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