Air plethysmography: The answer in detecting past deep venous thrombosis

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 715-720

  Kalodiki, Evi ^a   Calahoras, Leonicos S ^b   Delis, Konstantinos T ^b   Zouzias, Christos P ^b   Nicolaides, Andrew N ^b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VARICOSIS; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0035318126     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2001.111743     Document Type: Article

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