Recurrent lower-limb varicose veins: Effect of direct contrast-enhanced three-dimensional MR venographic findings on diagnostic thinking and therapeutic decisions

Radiology

Volumn 247, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 887-895

  Müller, Mathias A ^a   Mayer, Dieter ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^b   Marincek, Borut ^a   Willmann, Jürgen K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LEG PHLEBOGRAPHY; LEG VARICOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VENOUS CIRCULATION; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARICOSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GADOTERATE MEGLUMINE; MEGLUMINE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEG; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 45149126675     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2473070987     Document Type: Article

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