General Practitioner-Performed Compression Ultrasonography for Diagnosis of Deep Vein Thrombosis of the Leg: A Multicenter, Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: Patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of the lower limb represent a diagnostic dilemma for general practitioners. Compression ultrasonography (US) is universally recognized as the best test of choice. We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of compression US performed by general practitioners given short training in the management of symptomatic proximal DVT.

A "Google Image" diagnosis of Madelung's disease.

Given the rare nature of Madelung's disease many clinicians will not have seen a patient with it and will not be able to recognise them: subsequently a diagnosis is unlikely to be made.

Accuracy of nurse-performed compression ultrasonography in the diagnosis of proximal symptomatic deep vein thrombosis: a prospective cohort study.

Background: Compression ultrasonography (CUS) has been recognized as the diagnostic procedure of choice for the investigation of patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT); the aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of nurse-performed CUS for symptomatic proximal DVT of the lower limb.

Material And Methods: We prospectively evaluated all consecutive outpatients referred for suspected DVT from January 2011 to December 2012. All patients underwent bilateral proximal lower limb CUS, first by trained nurses and then by physicians expert in vascular ultrasonography, with every group blinded with respect to each other.

Frontal lobe syndrome caused by a giant meningioma presenting as depression and bipolar disorder.

Frontal meningiomas may present only with psychological symptoms that resemble depression, anxiety states, hypomania and schizophrenia. Herein, we present the case of a 55-year-old man who was initially thought to have depression and bipolar disorder, but was eventually diagnosed with frontal lobe syndrome caused by a giant frontal meningioma.