Clinical applications of transcranial color-coded duplex sonography

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 215-225

  Krejza, Jaroslaw ^a,b   Baumgartner, Ralf W ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Arteriovenous malformation; Cerebrovascular disease; Intracranial collateral; Intracranial occlusion; Intracranial stenosis; Intracranial vasospasm; Ischemia; Stroke; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NEUROSURGERY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; REVIEW; STROKE;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 2942693621     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1051228403259274     Document Type: Review

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