Duplex ultrasound of the superficial femoral artery is a better screening tool than ankle-brachial index to identify at risk patients with lower extremity atherosclerosis

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 789-793

  Flanigan, D Preston ^a   Ballard, Jeffrey L ^a,b   Robinson, Doreen ^a   Galliano, Mark ^c   Blecker, Gina ^c   Harward, Timothy R S ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Flanigan and Harward NonInvasive Vascular Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CLAUDICATION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; LEG ATHEROSCLEROSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SMOKING; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; TIBIAL ARTERY; TIME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANKLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 41149143519     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.11.023     Document Type: Article

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