Upper Extremity Venous Doppler Ultrasound

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 513-524

  Weber, Therese M ^a   Lockhart, Mark E ^a   Robbin, Michelle L ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARM; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG EMBOLISM; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

HUMANS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UPPER EXTREMITY; VASCULAR DISEASES; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 34250694229     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2007.04.005     Document Type: Review

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