Extra- and transcranial echo colour Doppler in the diagnosis of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency

Phlebology

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 107-113

  van den Berg, P J ^a   Visser, Leo H ^b  

^a MÁXIMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CCSVI; Colour Doppler; Echo; Internal jugular veins; Multiple sclerosis; Review; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN VEIN; CHRONIC CEREBROSPINAL VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN STENOSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STENOSIS; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

AZYGOS VEIN; CEREBRAL VEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84856798541     PISSN: 02683555     EISSN: 14333031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/phleb.2011.012S04     Document Type: Review

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