The relationship between leukoaraiosis volume and parameters of carotid artery duplex ultrasonographic scanning in asymptomatic diabetic patients

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 489-493

  Tanaka, Tomotaka ^a   Shimizu, Tomohisa ^a   Fukuhara, Toru ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION OKAYAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Leukoaraiosis; Microangiopathy; Pulsatility index; Volumetric analysis

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY; DIABETES; DIABETIC PATIENT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MICROALBUMINURIA; MICROANGIOPATHY; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; PULSATILITY INDEX;

DECISION MAKING; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SCANNING; SUGAR (SUCROSE); VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; DIABETIC MICROANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 67349119541     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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