Clinical correlates of high-intensity transient signals detected on transcranial doppler sonography in patients with cerebrovascular disease

Stroke

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 1570-1573

  Babikian, Viken L ^a   Hyde, Charles ^b   Pochay, Val ^a   Winter, Michael R ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Cerebrovascular disorders; Embolism; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASILAR ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0028038358     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.25.8.1570     Document Type: Article

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