Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 4 , Pages 678-685 , October 2009

The pulmonary embolism risk score system reduces the incidence and mortality of pulmonary embolism after gastric bypass

  • Joseph A. Caruana, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Joseph A. Caruana, MD, Department of Surgery, Sisters of Charity Hospital and the State University of New York at Buffalo, 30 North Union Road, Buffalo, NY 14221.
    • ,
  • Paul M. Anain, MD
    • ,
  • Dang Tuan Pham, MD

,Accepted 29 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.07.011

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