Velocity criteria for intracranial stenosis revisited: An international multicenter study of transcranial Doppler and digital subtraction angiography

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3429-3434

  Zhao, Limin ^a   Barlinn, Kristian ^a,b   Sharma, Vijay K ^c   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a,d,e   Cava, Luis F ^a   Vasdekis, Spyros N ^e   Teoh, Hock Luen ^c   Triantafyllou, Nikos ^e   Chan, Bernard P L ^c   Sharma, Arvind ^f   Voumvourakis, Konstantinos ^e   Stamboulis, Elefterios ^e   Saqqur, Maher ^f   Harrigan, Mark R ^g   Albright, Karen C ^a   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital subtraction angiography; Intracranial stenosis; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STENOSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84855712415     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.621235     Document Type: Article

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