Detection of Venous Emboli Using Doppler Ultrasound

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 96-101

  Nakamura, H ^a   Inoue, Y ^a   Kudo, T ^a   Kurihara, N ^a   Sugano, N ^a   Iwai, T ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep vein thrombosis; Doppler ultrasound; High intensity transient signal (HITS); Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FLOW RATE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; ILIAC VEIN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VEIN EMBOLISM;

ANIMALS; AXILLARY VEIN; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 36849074205     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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