The StethoDop: A Doppler stethoscope attachment for investigation of arterial and venous insufficiency of the lower extremities

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 53-57

  van de Ven, A C ^a   Bredie, S J H ^a   van der Vleuten, C J M ^a   Holewijn, S ^a   Thien, Th ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG VARICOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIPHERAL ISCHEMIA; POPLITEAL VEIN; PREDICTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STETHOSCOPE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STETHOSCOPES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 4143054756     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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