Age and sex dependency of blood flow velocity in the internal carotid artery

Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-8

  Kochonowicz, Jan ^a   Mariak, Zenon ^a   Rutkowski, Robert ^a   Turek, Grzegorz ^a   Łysoń, Tomasz ^a   Krejza, Jarosław ^b  

^a Uniwersytetu Medyczny   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow velocity; Colour Doppler ultrasonography; Gender; Internal carotid arter age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LEFT INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; RIGHT INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65949091150     PISSN: 00283843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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