Unexplained Increase of Fatal Pulmonary Embolus at the Bristol Royal Infirmary in 1950
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increase in the numbers of deaths from pulmonary embolism was noticed, and was decided to look further into the matter to find out whether the increase was in fact real, and whether it could be attributed to any particular cause. Only those cases of pulmonary embolus actually proved by autopsy have been considered, and the inquiry was limited to the Royal Infirmary Branch and therefore includes only medical, surgical, orthopaedic and skin cases. A study of the annual incidence of fatal pulmonary embolism from 1940 to 1950 showed a gradual slight increase from 1940 to 1949, and then in i95?> a
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دوره 69 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1952