Benefit of echocontrast-enhanced transcranial arterial color-coded duplex ultrasound

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 332-336

  Droste, Dirk W ^a,b   Boehm, Thomas ^a   Ritter, Martin A ^a   Dittrich, Ralf ^a   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Intracranial circulation; Transcranial color coded duplex sonography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TEMPORAL BONE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 27644560500     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087933     Document Type: Article

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