The accuracy of transcranial Doppler in the diagnosis of middle cerebral artery stenosis

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 325-330

  Navarro, Jose C ^a   Lao, Annabelle Y ^a,b   Sharma, Vijay K ^b,c   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^b,d   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS HOSPITAL   (Philippines)

^b BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Mean flow velocity; Middle cerebral artery stenosis; Positive predictive value

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 34248392552     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099130     Document Type: Review

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