Value of transcranial doppler ultrasonography in comparison to scintigraphic techniques and EEG in brain death;Die wertigkeit der transkraniellen dopplersonographie im vergleich zu szintigraphischen verfahren und EEG in der hirntoddiagnostik

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-13

  Burger, R ^a,b   Schlake, H P ^a   Seybold, S ^a   Reiners, Chr ^a   Bendszus, M ^a   Roosen, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain death; Electroencephalography; Planar scintigraphy; SPECT; TCD

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0034035883     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-8259     Document Type: Article

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