Pilcher D B, Ricci M A
Department of Surgery, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, USA.
Surg Clin North Am. 1998 Apr;78(2):273-93. doi: 10.1016/s0039-6109(05)70313-3.
Surgeon-interpreted diagnostic ultrasound has become the preferred screening test and often the definitive test for the diagnosis of arterial stenosis, aneurysm, and venous thrombosis. As a modality for surveillance, its noninvasive quality makes it particularly appealing as the test of choice to screen patients for abdominal aortic aneurysms or to perform follow-up examinations on those patients with a carotid endartectomy or in situ bypass grafts. The increasing reliance on intraoperative duplex imaging of vascular procedures demands that the surgeon learn the skills to perform the studies without a technologist or radiologist to interpret the examination.
