Grading carotid stenosis using ultrasonic methods

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 916-921

  Von Reutern, Gerhard Michael ^a   Goertler, Michael Wolfgang ^b   Bornstein, Natan M ^c   Sette, Massimo Del ^c   Evans, David H ^c   Hetzel, Andreas ^c   Kaps, Manfred ^c   Perren, Fabienne ^c   Razumovky, Alexander ^c   Von Reutern, Michael ^c   Shiogai, Toshiyuki ^c   Titianova, Ekaterina ^c   Traubner, Pavel ^c   Venketasubramanian, Narayanaswamy ^c   Wong, Lawrence K S ^c   Yasaka, Masahiro ^c  

^a Neurologische Praxis Am Ambulanten Kardiologischen Zentrum   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Neurosonology Research Group of the World Federation of Neurology   (Japan)

Author keywords

carotid stenosis; degree of stenosis; duplex sonography; peak systolic velocity; transcranial sonography; ultrasound diagnosis

Indexed keywords

B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; STROKE;

CAROTID STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84857659504     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.636084     Document Type: Review

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