Unrecordable pulsatile ocular blood flow may signify severe stenosis of the ipsilateral internal carotid artery

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1478-1480

  Barkana, Y ^a   Harris, A ^b   Hefez, L ^a   Zaritski, M ^a   Chen, D ^a   Avni, I ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0347517737     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.12.1478     Document Type: Article

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