Elevated transcranial Doppler flow velocities after severe head injury: Cerebral vasospasm or hyperemia?

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 90-97

  Romner, Bertil ^a   Bellner, Johan ^a   Kongstad, Poul ^a   Sjöholm, Hans ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cerebral blood flow; head injury vasospasm; hyperemia; ischemia; transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

NIMODIPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0029883046     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.85.1.0090     Document Type: Article

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