Detection of carotid adventitial vasa vasorum and plaque vascularization with ultrasound cadence contrast pulse sequencing technique and echo-contrast agent

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2841-2843

  Vicenzini, Edoardo ^a,b   Giannoni, Maria Fabrizia ^a   Puccinelli, Francesco ^a   Ricciardi, Maria Chiara ^a   Altieri, Marta ^a   Di Piero, Vittorio ^a   Gossetti, Bruno ^a   Valentini, Fabrizio Benedetti ^a   Lenzi, Gian Luigi ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cadence CPS technique; Carotid atherosclerosis; Echo contrast agents; Plaque vascularization; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASA VASORUM; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NECROSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASA VASORUM;

EID: 34848886425     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.487918     Document Type: Article

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