Stroke treatment guided by transcranial Doppler monitoring in a patient unresponsive to standard regimens

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 175-177

  Behrens, S ^a   Daffertshofer, M ^a   Hennerici, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral embolism; Stroke treatment; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0032948781     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000015950     Document Type: Article

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