Renal artery duplex ultrasonography as a screening and surveillance tool to detect renal artery stenosis: A comparison with current reference standard imaging

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 293-298

  Soares, Gregory M ^a   Murphy, Timothy P ^a   Singha, Malwinder S ^a   Parada, Andrea ^a   Jaff, Michael ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Duplex ultrasonography; Renal artery; Stenosis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOLOGY; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCREENING;

DUPLEX ULTRASONOGRAPHY; RENAL ARTERY; STENOSIS;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RENAL ARTERY DUPLEX ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33644542166     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.3.293     Document Type: Article

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