Identification of echocardiographic 'smoke' in a bench model with transcranial Doppler ultrasound

Stroke

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 907-914

  Yang, Yi ^c   Grosset, Donald G ^a   Li, Qiu ^d   Lees, Kennedy R ^b  

^a SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cerebral embolism; Spontaneous echo contrast; Ultrasound, Doppler, transcranial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOGENESIS;

EID: 0034116583     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.31.4.907     Document Type: Article

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