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Pulmonary Embolism

"Pulmonary Embolism" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Blocking of the PULMONARY ARTERY or one of its branches by an EMBOLUS.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pulmonary Embolism" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pulmonary Embolism" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 150 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 16 publications in 2020
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