Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
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To evaluate the diagnostic performance of transthoracic sonography of the lung in view of an acute suspicion of pulmonary embolism. ⋯ The results from this study suggest that transthoracic sonography of the lung does not fulfill satisfactory performance criteria in view of a clinical suspicion of pulmonary embolism.
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Case Reports
Interrupted inferior vena cava and left-sided subrenal inferior vena cava: prenatal diagnosis.
An interrupted inferior vena cava (IVC) and a left-sided subrenal (postrenal) IVC with azygos or hemiazygos continuation are very rare anomalies of the IVC. The prenatal sonographic and color Doppler features of these anomalies are reported here.