Prognostic relevance of ultra-early doppler sonography in acute ischaemic stroke: a prospective multicentre study

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 835-840

  Allendoerfer, Jens ^a   Goertler, Michael ^c   von Reutern, Gerhard Michael ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Asklepios Neurologische Klinik   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33750589748     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(06)70551-8     Document Type: Article

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