Transcranial color doppler study for reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 751-757

  Chen, Shih Pin ^a,b   Fuh, Jong Ling ^a,c   Chang, Feng Chi ^a,c   Lirng, Jiing Feng ^a,c   Shia, Ben Chang ^d   Wang, Shuu Jiun ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taoyuan Veterans Hospital   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LINDEGAARD INDEX; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 46749100609     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21384     Document Type: Article

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