Advances in transcranial Doppler ultrasonography

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-54

  Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a   Sloan, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 59149093931     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-009-0008-7     Document Type: Article

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