Diagnostic performance of duplex ultrasound in patients suspected of carotid artery disease: The ipsilateral versus contralateral artery

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2105-2109

  Heijenbrok Kal, Majanka H ^c   Nederkoorn, Paul J ^a   Buskens, Erik ^b   Van Der Graaf, Yolanda ^b   Hunink, Myriam ^d  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Carotid arteries; Carotid stenosis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMAUROSIS FUGAX; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 26444552332     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000181753.40455.07     Document Type: Article

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