Assessment of cervical venous blood flow and the craniocervical venus valve using ultrasound sonography

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-17

  Morimoto, Akira ^a,b   Takase, Izumi ^a   Shimizu, Yukio ^b   Nishi, Katsuji ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Department of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ultrasound sonography; Venous congestion; Venous valve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY POSTURE; CRANIOCERVICAL VEIN VALVE; EXTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SITTING; STRANGULATION; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SONOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN VALVE; VENOUS REFLUX; VENOUS RETURN;

ADULT; ASPHYXIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEAD; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; POSTURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 57349164876     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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