Visualization of the basilar artery by transcranial color-coded duplex sonography: Comparison with postmortem results

Stroke

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1123-1127

  Schulte Altedorneburg, Gernot ^a,b,c   Droste, Dirk W ^b   Popa, Vasile ^a   Wohlgemuth, Walter A ^c   Kellermann, Mónika ^a   Nabavi, Darius G ^b   Csiba, László ^a   Bernd Ringelstein, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basilar artery; Duplex scanning; Pathology; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0034094087     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.31.5.1123     Document Type: Article

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