Analysis of factors related to microemboli in cases with internal carotid artery stenosis

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 707-712

  Akiyama, Yoshinori ^a   Todaka, Tatemi ^a   Nomuka, Motohiro ^a   Sawada, Motoshi ^a   Morimoto, Masafumi ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^a   Yoshimoto, Haruko ^a   Nagatsuka, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Internal carotid artery stenosis; Microemboli; Transcranial Doppler sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 12644266342     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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