Transcranial ultrasound from diagnosis to early stroke treatment - Part 2: Prehospital neurosonography in patients with acute stroke - The regensburg stroke mobile project

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 262-271

  Schlachetzki, Felix ^a   Herzberg, Moriz ^a   Hölscher, Thilo ^c   Ertl, Michael ^a   Zimmermann, Markus ^a   Ittner, Karl Peter ^a   Pels, Hendrik ^b   Bogdahn, Ulrich ^a   Boy, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Institut für Labormedizin   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke diagnosis; Mobile transcranial color coded sonography; Prehospital management of stroke; Sonothrombolysis

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIST; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TEMPORAL BONE; TRANSDUCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84855875917     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334667     Document Type: Article

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