Multigate quality doppler profiles and morphological/hemodynamic alterations in multiple sclerosis patients

Current Neurovascular Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-127

  Ciccone, Marco Matteo ^a   Galeandro, Aldo Innocente ^b   Scicchitano, Pietro ^a   Zito, Annapaola ^a   Gesualdo, Michele ^a   Sassara, Marco ^a   Cortese, Francesca ^a   Dachille, Annamaria ^a   Carbonara, Rosa ^a   Federico, Francesco ^a   Livrea, Paolo ^a   Trojano, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Centro Diagnostica Globale and ASL TA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency; Echo Doppler; Jugular stenosis; Multiple sclerosis; Reproducibility; Venous reflux

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CHRONIC CEREBROSPINAL VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STENOSIS; SYMPTOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VEIN MALFORMATION; VEIN OCCLUSION; VENOUS REFLUX;

EID: 84860759063     PISSN: 15672026     EISSN: 18755739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156720212800410849     Document Type: Article

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