Fatal Pulmonary Embolism Immediately after Transatlantic Air Travel to the United States: Less than One in a Million

Thromb Haemost 2002; 87(02): 342
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1612996

Letters to the Editor

Schattauer GmbH

Jeffrey A. Kline

¹Dept Emergency Medicine, Carolina Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

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Melissa Putman

²University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

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D. Mark Courtney

³Division of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

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