The importance of monophasic Doppler waveforms in the common femoral vein: A retrospective study

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 885-891

  Lin, Edward P ^a   Bhatt, Shwetta ^a   Rubens, Deborah ^a   Dogra, Vikram S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color flow Doppler sonography; Deep venous thrombosis; Monophasic waveforms; Sonography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

COLOR FLOW DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS; DOPPLER WAVEFORMS; MONOPHASIC WAVEFORMS;

WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG VARICOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; VEIN OCCLUSION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 34447135450     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.7.885     Document Type: Article

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