Color-flow duplex scanning of the leg arteries by use of a new echo-enhancing agent

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 392-396

  Ubbink, Dirk Th ^a   Legemate, Dink A ^a   Llull, Jean Bernard ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Bracco Suisse SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEG ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIBIAL ARTERY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIBIAL ARTERIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0036479512     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2002.118087     Document Type: Article

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