Are spontaneous cerebral microemboli consistent in carotid disease?

Stroke

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 685-688

  Hutchinson, Suzanne ^a   Riding, Graham ^a   Coull, Stuart ^a   McCollum, Charles N ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid artery diseases; Cerebral embolism; Reproducibility of results; Ultrasonography, Doppler, transcranial

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0036193281     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hs0302.104166     Document Type: Article

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