Serial single-photon emission computed tomographic and transcranial Doppler measurements for evaluation of vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Neurosurgery

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 237-241

  Egge, Arild ^a   Sjøholm, Hans ^a   Waterloo, Knut ^a   Solberg, Tore ^a   Ingebrigtsen, Tor ^a   Romner, Bertil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hemodynamics; Single photon emission computed tomography; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Transcranial Doppler; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 23244432516     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000166538.60333.D6     Document Type: Article

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