National Guideline Clearinghouse | ACR Appropriateness Criteria® upper extremity swelling.

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National Guideline Clearinghouse | ACR Appropriateness Criteria® upper extremity swelling.

Guideline Title

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® upper extremity swelling.

Bibliographic Source(s)

Dill KE, Bennett SJ, Hanley M, Bandyk DF, Gage KL, Gerhard-Herman MD, Gornik HL, Johnson PT, Oliva IB, Ptak T, Steigner ML, Strax R, Rybicki FJ, Expert Panel on Vascular Imaging. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® upper extremity swelling [online publication]. Reston (VA): American College of Radiology (ACR); 2014. 9 p. [67 references]

Guideline Status

This is the current release of the guideline.

This guideline updates a previous version: Desjardins B, Rybicki FJ, Kim HS, Fan CM, Flamm SD, Gerhard-Herman MD, Kalva SP, Koss SA, Mansour MA, Mohler ER III, Narra VR, Schenker MP, Tulchinsky M, Weiss C, Expert Panel on Vascular Imaging. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® suspected upper extremity deep vein thrombosis. [online publication]. Reston (VA): American College of Radiology (ACR); 2011. 7 p. [58 references]

This guideline meets NGC's 2013 (revised) inclusion criteria.