Utility of abdominal sonography in patients with idiopathic deep vein thrombosis

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 177-181

  Netzer, Peter ^a,b   Binek, Janek ^a   Hammer, Bruno ^a   Schmassmann, Adrian ^b  

^a Kantonsspital St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abdominal sonography; Cancer; Idiopathic venous thrombosis; Screening

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0032931155     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0096(199905)27:4<177::AID-JCU2>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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