Transcranial doppler waveform blunting in severe extracranial carotid artery stenosis

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-38

  Hartmann, A ^a   Mast, H ^a   Thompson, J L P ^b   Sia, R M ^b   Mohr, J P ^b  

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

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotid stenosis; Pulsatility; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; WAVEFORM;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0033970829     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016022     Document Type: Article

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