Carotid Arteries: Contrast-enhanced US Angiography-Preliminary Clinical Experience

Radiology

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 561-568

  Kono, Yuko ^a   Pinnell, Sean P ^a   Sirlin, Claude B ^a   Sparks, Steven R ^a   Georgy, Bassem ^a   Wong, Wade ^a   Mattrey, Robert F ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid arteries, stenosis or obstruction; Carotid arteries, US; Ultrasound (US), contrast media

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBUMINS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 1642458190     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2302020318     Document Type: Article

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