Variability of thyroid blood flow Doppler parameters in healthy women

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 867-876

  Krejza, Jaroslaw ^a,b   Nowacka, Agnieszka ^a   Szylak, Agnieszka ^a   Bilello, Michel ^b   Melhem, Lina Y ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Doppler studies; Estrogen; Menstrual cycle; Progesterone; Sex hormones; Thyroid; Ultrasonography; Variability; Women

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE; HORMONES; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BLOOD PRESSURE; PLASMA CONCENTRATIONS; PULSE PRESSURE INDEX (PPI); SUPERIOR THYROID ARTERY (STHA);

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; LUTEAL PHASE; MEASUREMENT; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PULSATILE FLOW; SUPERIOR THYROID ARTERY; THYROID GLAND; TIME; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTERIES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROGESTERONE; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SYSTOLE; THYROID GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 4143144382     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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