Scores to Identify Occult Cancer in Venous Thromboembolism: Do They Work?

David Jiménez; Behnood Bikdeli

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1667035

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 2018; 118(08): 1343-1344
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1667035

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Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Scores to Identify Occult Cancer in Venous Thromboembolism: Do They Work?

David Jiménez

¹Respiratory Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Universidad de Alcalá (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain

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Behnood Bikdeli

²Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States

³Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), Yale University School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

⁴Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), New York, New York, United States

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