Relationship between flow diversion on transcranial Doppler sonography and leptomeningeal collateral circulation in patients with middle cerebral artery occlusive disorder

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-26

  Kim, Yosik ^a,c   Sin, Dae Soo ^a   Park, Hyun Young ^a   Park, Man Seok ^b   Cho, Ki Hyun ^b  

^a Wonkwang University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c NONE   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flow diversion; Leptomenin geal collateral circulation; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; TCD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MENINGES; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 58149347605     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2008.00242.x     Document Type: Article

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