Transcranial doppler: An introduction for primary care physicians

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-71

  Kassab, Mounzer Y ^a,e   Majid, Arshad ^a   Farooq, Muhammad U ^a   Azhary, Hend ^b   Hershey, Linda A ^c   Bednarczyk, Edward M ^b   Graybeal, Dion F ^d   Johnson, Mark D ^d  

^a East Lansing   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY OCCLUSION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBUBBLE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REVIEW; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CEREBRAL VEINS; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846877651     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2007.01.060128     Document Type: Review

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