Disappearance of an oscillating intraluminal thrombus in the carotid artery demonstrated by ultrasonography

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 746-749

  Yonemura, Kiminobu ^a   Kimura, Kazumi ^a   Yasaka, Masahiro ^a   Minematsu, Kazuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Intraluminal thrombus; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LABORATORY TEST; LEG DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSCILLATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0042473978     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.746     Document Type: Article

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