Population
562 consecutive patients with a first episode of clinically suspected deep vein thrombosis
Design
Cross-sectional, Venograms were adjudicated blindly
Authors
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May support limiting compression ultrasound to common femoral and popliteal veins; prospective validation needed before practice change.
The finding that isolated superficial femoral or iliac vein thrombi do not occur in symptomatic DVT patients supports simplifying compression ultrasound to examine only the common femoral and popliteal veins.
A. Cogo (1993) studied this question.
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