Consensus recommendations for transcranial color-coded duplex sonography for the assessment of intracranial arteries in clinical trials on acute stroke

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3238-3244

  Nedelmann, Max ^a   Stolz, Erwin ^a   Gerriets, Tibo ^a   Baumgartner, Ralf W ^b   Malferrari, Giovanni ^c   Seidel, Guenter ^d   Kaps, Manfred ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Arcispedale S Maria Nuova ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consensus; Stroke transcranial color coded duplex sonography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 70349668750     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.555169     Document Type: Review

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