Lower extremity deep venous thrombosis: Vascular laboratory quality assurance without correlation between ultrasound and venography

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 443-447

  Salles Cunha, Sergio X ^a,b   Ascher, Enrico ^a,b   Hingorani, Anil ^a,b   Markevich, Natalia ^a,b   Yorkovich, William ^a,b  

^a Maimonides Medical Center ^*

^b MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEG; LEG PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 5444243982     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440403800508     Document Type: Article

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