Diagnosing deep vein thrombosis

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 66-73

  Somarouthu, Bhanusupriya ^a   Abbara, Suhny ^a   Kalva, Sanjeeva P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

D dimer test; Deep venous thrombosis; Duplex ultrasound; Pulmonary embolism; Venous thromboembolism; Wells clinical score

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D;

ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC VENOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST VENOGRAPHY; CYST RUPTURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE VENOGRAPHY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POPLITEAL CYST; PROBABILITY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; ALGORITHM; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77950365501     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2010.03.2123     Document Type: Article

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