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Investigators from the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, studied the specificity, inter-modality and inter-reader agreement of color Doppler ultrasound (CDUS) for the evaluation of cerebral venous sinuses in neonates and compared the results to magnetic resonance venography (MRV). The authors prospectively evaluated consecutive hospitalized infants referred to radiology by a neonatologist with a MRI-MRV request. Patients were included if there was a clinically indicated need for a first-time MRV and the US could be performed within 10 hours.
PICO
Question: Among neonates, is color Doppler ultrasound comparable to magnetic resonance venography in evaluating cerebral venous sinuses?
Question type: Diagnosis
Study design: Prospective (with retrospective clinical and surgical review)
CDUS was performed by a pediatric radiology fellow or experienced sonographer. The CDUS was performed through the anterior fontanelle or …
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