Contrast-enhanced transcranial color-coded duplex sonography criteria for basilar artery stenosis

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 407-410

  Tateishi, Yohei ^a,b,c   Iguchi, Yasuyuki ^a   Kimura, Kazumi ^a   Inoue, Takeshi ^a   Shibazaki, Kensaku ^a   Eguchi, Katsumi ^b  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basilar artery stenosis; Cerebrovascular disease; Contrast enhanced transcranial color coded duplex sonography; Peak systolic flow velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY LESION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRANIAL COLOR CODED DUPLEX SONOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 53149113047     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2007.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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