Normal blood flow velocities of basal cerebral arteries decrease with advancing age: A transcranial Doppler sonography study

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 145-149

  Demirkaya, Seref ^a   Uluc, Kayihan ^b   Bek, Semai ^a   Vural, Okay ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Basal; Cerebral arteries; Healthy subjects; Normal values; Transcranial Doppler sonography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 41949133898     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.214.145     Document Type: Article

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