Blood flow velocities in the basal cerebral vein after head trauma: A prospective study in 82 patients

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 325-329

  Mursch, Kay ^a,b   Müller, Christian Andreas ^a   Buhre, Wolfgang ^a   Lang, Johannes K ^a   Vatter, Hartmut ^a   Behnke Mursch, Julianne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b ZENTRALKLINIK BAD BERKA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral veins; Head injury; Hemodynamics; Transcranial duplex sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN VEIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSATILE FLOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0036785280     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2002.tb00140.x     Document Type: Article

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