Diagnosis of brain death by transcranial Doppler sonography: Solutions for cases of difficult sonic windows

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2896-2897

  Dominguez Roldan, Jose Maria ^a,b   Jimenez Gonzalez, P I ^a   Garcia Alfaro, C ^a   Rivera Fernandez, V ^a   Hernandez Hazanas F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL BONE; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

BRAIN DEATH; HUMANS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 21244496456     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2004.10.052     Document Type: Article

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