Unusual Movements, "Spontaneous" Breathing, and Unclear Cerebral Vessels Sonography in a Brain-Dead Patient: A Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2707-2708

  Bohatyrewicz, R ^a   Walecka, A ^a   Bohatyrewicz, A ^a   Zukowski, M ^a   Kepinski S ^a   Marzec Lewenstein, E ^a   Sawicki, M ^a   Kordowski, J ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURY; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NECK MUSCLE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

BRAIN; BRAIN DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PULSE; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36048975721     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.08.060     Document Type: Article

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