Clinical application of transcranial Doppler monitoring for embolic signals

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 799-810

  Azarpazhooh, M R ^a   Chambers, B R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Doppler; Intracranial embolism; Transcranial; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FAT EMBOLISM; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASCULITIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 33748758235     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2005.12.026     Document Type: Review

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