Transcranial color Doppler sonography in the emergency diagnosis of middle cerebral artery occlusion in a patient after head injury

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 90-94

  Krejza, J ^a   Fryc, J ^a   Owlasiuk, M ^a   Huba, M ^a   Bert, R J ^b   Mariak, Z ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain ischemia; Cerebral blood flow; Head injury; Stroke; Transcranial doppler

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING;

CEREBRAL VESSELS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0034903296     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(01)00255-8     Document Type: Article

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