Clinical applicability of a mathematical model in assessing the functional ability of the communicating arteries of the circle of Willis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 94-99

  Orosz, László ^a   Hoksbergen, Arjan W ^b   Molnár, Csilla ^a   Siró, Péter ^a   Cassot, Francis ^c   Marc Vergnes, Jean Pierre ^c   Fülesdi, Béla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

Circle of Willis; collateral capacity; Transcranial color coded duplex sonography

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CAUSALITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 70350620447     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2009.08.049     Document Type: Article

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