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A Multicenter MRI Protocol for the Evaluation and Quantification of Deep Vein Thrombosis
Published on: June 2, 2015
[Guidelines for the diagnostics of deep pelvic/lower limb vein thrombosis]
H Stiegler1, W Habscheid, M Ludwig
1Angiologie, Städtisches Krankenhaus Schwabing, München, Germany.
Abstract:
As a result of availability and failing invasiveness the technique of compression sonography led to a change in the indication of thrombosis examination - from the proof of thrombosis shown by phlebography to exclusion of thrombosis by ultrasound. Compression sonography showed the same sensitivity and specificity as phlebography for proximal limb thrombosis and reaches high safety due to actual treatment studies in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis. For the distal limb the compression sonography has provided > 90 % specificity, with an examinator dependent sensitivity of 50 to 95 %, and hence examination of the distal limb must be recommended. These guidelines for the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis are recommendations by the Section of Vascular Ultrasound of DEGUM for examination technique and documentation. It also contains an algorithm of diagnosis for thrombosis as a result of the actual treatment studies.
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