Transcranial duplex sonography and CT angiography in acute stroke patients

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 240-245

  Bar, Michal ^a   Školoudík, David ^a   Roubec, Martin ^a   Hradílek, Pavel ^a   Chmelová, Jana ^a   Czerný, Daniel ^a   Procházka, Václav ^a   Langová, Kateřina ^a,b   Herzig, Roman ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

artery occlusion; CT angiography; Ischemic stroke; transcranial color coded sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 77954630805     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2008.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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