Middle cerebral artery vasospasm: Transcranial color-coded duplex sonography versus conventional nonimaging transcranial doppler sonography

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 963-968

  Swiat, MacIej ^a,d   Weigele, John ^a   Hurst, Robert W ^a   Kasner, Scott E ^b   Pawlak, Mikolaj ^a,c   Arkuszewski, Michal ^a,d   Al Okaili, Riyadh N ^a   Swiercz, Miroslaw ^d,e   Ustymowicz, Andrzej ^a   Opala, Grzegorz ^d   Melhem, Elias R ^a   Krejza, Jaroslaw ^a,f  

^a Department of Radiology and Neurology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^e BIALYSTOK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Middle cerebral artery; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Transcranial color coded Doppler sonography; Transcranial Doppler sonography; Ultrasonography; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; AGED; BRAIN VASOSPASM; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62849095028     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31819b8165     Document Type: Article

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