Imaging of aortic lesions with color coded duplex sonography and contrast-enhanced ultrasound versus multislice computed tomography (MS-CT) angiography

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 267-279

  Clevert, D A ^a,b,c   Weckbach, S ^a   Kopp, R ^a   Meimerakis, G ^a   Jauch, K W ^a   Reiser, M ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA); Abdominal aortic lesions; Aortic dissection; Computed tomography angiography (CTA); Contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS); Endoleak

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL; SONOVUE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR CODED DUPLEX SONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; RENAL ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 58149373838     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2008-1137     Document Type: Article

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