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The use of Achilles tendon ultrasonography for the diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Aug 2001
Descamps O S, Leysen X, Van Leuven F, Heller F R
Abstract excerpt
Differentiating FH from other causes of hypercholesterolemia has important clinical and therapeutic implications but is often not possible by standard clinical criteria. As accumulation of cholesterol in tendon is generally considered as pathognomonic of FH, we evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of clinical and ultrasonographic tendon characteristics using the data of 127 genetically ascertained FH and 160...
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