Femoral/axillary volume flow ratio as a new index for the assessment of iliac atherosclerosis

Angiology

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 690-697

  Furtado De Medeiros, Charles Angotti ^a,b   Ferreira Silveira, Sandra Aparecida ^a   Hüsemann Menezes, Föbio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

arterial occlusive disease; blood flow measurements; Doppler ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AXILLARY ARTERY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; LERICHE SYNDROME; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VOLUME; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AXILLARY ARTERY; BLOOD VOLUME; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 77956455703     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319710366125     Document Type: Article

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