The diagnosis of vertebrobasilar insufficiency using transcranial doppler ultrasound

Case Reports in Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Alnaami, Ibrahim ^a,b   Siddiqui, Muzaffer ^a   Saqqur, Maher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BODY POSITION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; POSITIONAL VERTIGO; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84891789828     PISSN: 16879627     EISSN: 16879635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/894913     Document Type: Article

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