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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Peterborough City Hospital, 014, PE3 9GZ, Bretton, UK

    Dhakshinamoorthy Vijayasankar MBBS, MRCS, FCEM, Dip IMC, FIMC

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    Suresh S David

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Vijayasankar, D. (2016). Pulmonary Embolism. In: David, S. (eds) Clinical Pathways in Emergency Medicine. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2710-6_20

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