Clinical application of transcranial colour-coded duplex sonography - A review

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-8

  Zipper, Stephan G ^a,c   Stolz, Erwin ^b  

^a Neurological Department of the St Katharinenkrankenhaus   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c St Katharinenkrankenhaus ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disease; Transcranial colour coded duplex sonography (TCCS); Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; B SCAN; BRAIN VEIN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL COLOUR CODED DUPLEX SONOGRAPHY; VASOSPASM;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0036388458     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-1331.2002.00272.x     Document Type: Review

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