Compression sonography in patients with indeterminate or low-probability lung scans: Lack of usefulness in the absence of both symptoms of deep-vein thrombosis and thromboembolic risk factors

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 285-289

  Rosen, Max P ^a   Sheiman, Robert G ^a   Weintraub, Joshua ^a   McArdle, Colin ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0030053117     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.166.2.8553931     Document Type: Article

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