Transcranial Doppler in adult patients with sickle cell disease

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 38-41

  Silva, Gisele Sampaio ^a,c   Vicari, Perla ^a   Figueiredo, Maria Stella ^a   Filho, Adauto Castelo ^a   Valadi, Nojan ^b   Massaro, Ayrton Roberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Sickle cell disease; Stroke; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STROKE; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 30944460469     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089592     Document Type: Article

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