Bedside emergency transcranial doppler diagnosis of severe carotid disease using orbital window examination

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 138-143

  Saqqur, Maher ^a   Demchuk, Andrew M ^b,c   Hill, Michael D ^b,c   Dean, Naeem ^a   Schebel, Marcia ^b   Kennedy, James ^b   Barber, Philip A ^b   Shuaib, Ashfaq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Severe internal carotid artery (ICA) disease; Transcranial Doppler (TCD)

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; ORBIT; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 15244346960     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1051228404273816     Document Type: Article

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