Practice Standards for Transcranial Doppler (TCD) Ultrasound. Part II. clinical indications and expected outcomes

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 215-224

  Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a   Sloan, Michael A ^b   Tegeler, Charles H ^c   Newell, David N ^d   Lumsden, Alan ^e   Garami, Zsolt ^e   Levy, Christopher R ^f   Wong, Lawrence K S ^g   Douville, Colleen ^d   Kaps, Manfred ^h   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^d SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f HUNTER NEW ENGLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^g CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^h JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Applications and outcomes; Indications; TCD

Indexed keywords

ARTERY OCCLUSION; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MONITORING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; RECANALIZATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STANDARD; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84863769122     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2010.00523.x     Document Type: Review

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