Role of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography in stroke

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 985, 2007, Pages 683-689

  Sarkar, Sanjukta ^a   Ghosh, Sujoy ^a   Ghosh, Sandip Kumar ^a   Collier, Andrew ^a  

^a AYR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBCLAVIAN STEAL SYNDROME;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; HUMANS; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 36749023362     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2007.058602     Document Type: Review

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