Diagnosis and monitoring of cerebral hyperperfusion after carotid endarterectomy with single photon emission computed tomography: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 157-161

  Baker, Christopher J ^a   Mayer, Stephan A ^a,b   Prestigiacomo, Charles J ^a   Van Heertum, Ronald L ^a   Solomon, Robert A ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid endarterectomy; Computed tomography; Hyperperfusion; Single photon emission; Transcranial Doppoler; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETAZIME TC 99M; LABETALOL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031861404     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199807000-00106     Document Type: Article

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