Pediatric pulmonary embolism: Not as rare as we think

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep, Department of Child Health, University of Missouri School of Medicine and Women's and Children's Hospital, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, University of Thessaly School of Medicine and Larissa University Hospital, Larissa, Greece.

Editorial

Athanasios G Kaditis et al. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;56(10):3089-3092.

doi: 10.1002/ppul.25609. Epub 2021 Aug 18.

¹ Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep, Department of Child Health, University of Missouri School of Medicine and Women's and Children's Hospital, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, University of Thessaly School of Medicine and Larissa University Hospital, Larissa, Greece.

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Keywords: pulmonary embolism; septic pulmonary embolism.

Comment on

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