作者
Srikar Adhikari, Wes Zeger
发表日期
2015/3
期刊
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
卷号
16
期号
2
页码范围
250
出版商
California Chapter of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (Cal/AAEM)
简介
Methods
We performed a retrospective six-year review of an academic ED’s records of adult patients who underwent a comprehensive lower extremity duplex venous US examination for the evaluation of DVT. The entire US report was thoroughly reviewed for non-thrombotic findings.
Results
We detected non-thrombotic findings in 263 (11%, 95% CI [9.5–11.9%]) patients. Among the non-thrombotic findings, venous valvular incompetence (81, 30%) was the most frequent, followed by cyst/mass (41, 15%), lymphadenopathy (33, 12%), phlebitis (12, 4.5%), hematoma (8, 3%), cellulitis (1, 0.3%) and other (6, 2.2%).
Conclusion
In our study, we detected a variety of non-thrombotic abnormalities on comprehensive lower extremity venous duplex US examinations performed on ED patients. Some of these abnormalities could be clinically significant and potentially be detected with point-of-care lower extremity US …
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