Pulmonary embolism

Pulmonary embolus (PE) refers to obstruction of the pulmonary artery or one of its branches by material (e.g. thrombus, tumor, air, or fat) that originated elsewhere in the body. When modeling embolism disorder concepts with pulmonary in the FSN, the Finding site is 782966009 |Structure of artery of pulmonary circulation (body structure)|.

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