Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas: The use of intraoperative microvascular Doppler monitoring

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 519-524

  Padovani, R ^a   Farneti, M ^a,b   Maida, G ^a   Ghadirpour, R ^a  

^a S ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intraoperative monitoring; microDoppler; Spinal dural arteriovenous fistula; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; LUMBAR ARTERY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

AGED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 1642578893     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688690310001627740     Document Type: Article

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