Does the measurement of digital arterial pressure using the Doppler ultrasonic technique without testing for vasospasm to detect digital arterial occlusions make good sense?

Vasa - Journal of Vascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 158-162

  Heidrich, H ^a   Blank, B ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arteriography of the hand; Digital arterial pressure; Doppler ultrasonic pressure measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL ARTERY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASOSPASM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FINGERS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RAYNAUD DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0031928389     PISSN: 03011526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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