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Evaluating the Use of a Negative D-Dimer and Modified Low Wells Score in Excluding above Knee Deep Venous Thrombosis in an Outpatient Population, Assessing Need for Diagnostic Ultrasound

Aims. Colour doppler ultrasonography (CDUS) is widely used in the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis (DVT); however, the number of scans positive for above knee DVT is low. The present study evaluates the reliability of the D-dimer test combined with a clinical probability score (Wells score) in ru...

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Autores principales: Rahiminejad, Maryam, Rastogi, Anshul, Prabhudesai, Shirish, Mcclinton, David, MacCallum, Peter, Platton, Sean, Friedman, Emma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4045467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24967296
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/519875