Evaluation of the patient with spontaneous thrombophlebitis.
Even in the hands of a skilled clinician, the clinical diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis is often inaccurate. With the proper use of noninvasive tests as a screening procedure to determine which patients should have phlebography, diagnostic accuracy can be markedly improved.
D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking; D010690:Phlebography; D010991:Plethysmography; D013924:Thrombophlebitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D014463:Ultrasonography