Contrast-enhanced transcranial color-coded duplex sonography versus computed tomography and magnetic resonance angiography in the follow-up of basilar stenting

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 543-546

  Vicenzini, Edoardo ^a   Puccinelli, Francesco ^a   Ricciardi, Maria Chiara ^a   Guidetti, Giulio ^b   Delfini, Roberto ^b   Lenzi, Gian Luigi ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BASILAR STENTING; CIRCULATION STENOSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY (DSA); MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; THROMBOLYSIS;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

SONOVUE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST; COST CONTROL; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; RESTENOSIS; STENT; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL COLOR CODED DUPLEX SONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34047209289     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.4.543     Document Type: Article

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