Interhemispheric asymmetry in brain perfusion before and after carotid stenting: A99mTc-HMPAO SPECT study

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 729-737

  Sfyroeras, Giorgos S ^a   Arsos, Georgios ^a   Karkos, Christos D ^a   Liasidis, Charalampos ^b   Spyridis, Charalampos ^a   Boundas, Dimitrios ^a   Dimitriadis, Athanasios S ^a   Gerassimidis, Thomas S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Aristotle University and Hippokration General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

99mTc HMPAO SPECT; Brain perfusion; Carotid artery disease; Carotid stenting

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMAUROSIS FUGAX; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845444498     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/06-1857.1     Document Type: Article

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