Ultrasound screening for AAAs has no effect on all-cause mortality
Image: CC/Wiki 1. A review of one-time ultrasound screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) demonstrated that screening was associated with ...
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MRI-guided ultrasound thalamotomy may reduce essential tremor
Image: PD 1. MRI-guided ultrasound thalamotomy improved essential tremor symptoms in a small group of patients. 2. A substantial subset ...
Echocardiographic screening does not improve all-cause mortality
Image: PD 1. No mortality benefit was observed among white Norwegian adults randomly selected for echocardiographic screening for structural heart ...
Point-of-care ultrasound effectively identifies pediatric skull fractures
Image: PD 1. Point-of-care ultrasound had 88% sensitivity and 97% specificity for skull fractures . 2. Interobserver agreement among 17 ...
No long-term follow-up for benign thyroid nodules
Image: PD 1. Ultrasound (US) follow-up for longer than three years did not yield increased cancer detection after a benign ...
Transvaginal ultrasound is the best diagnostic method for ectopic pregnancy
Image: PD 1. With a sensitivity of 88% and specificity of 88% for detecting ectopic pregnancy, transvaginal sonography was the single ...
Serum hCG equal to ultrasonography in medical abortion follow-up
Feb 16th – After medical abortion, both serum hCG and ultrasonography have low rates of unplanned intervention and are equally ...
