TY - JOUR
T1 - Noninvasive carotid testing in threatened stroke. 1. Principles and techniques
AU - Anderson, D. C.
PY - 1983/1/1
Y1 - 1983/1/1
N2 - The noninvasive tests for evaluation of atherosclerotic disease in the region of the carotid bifurcation are of two types, the physiologically based indirect tests and the hemodynamically or structurally based direct imaging techniques. Limitations of the indirect methods led to development of the latter technologies, but the direct tests, especially imaging techniques, are generally more expensive and have limitations of their own. Duplex scanning, which combines physiologic and anatomic interrogation, should circumvent some shortcomings of the other direct techniques, but the necessary instruments are expensive and the method is technically difficult.
AB - The noninvasive tests for evaluation of atherosclerotic disease in the region of the carotid bifurcation are of two types, the physiologically based indirect tests and the hemodynamically or structurally based direct imaging techniques. Limitations of the indirect methods led to development of the latter technologies, but the direct tests, especially imaging techniques, are generally more expensive and have limitations of their own. Duplex scanning, which combines physiologic and anatomic interrogation, should circumvent some shortcomings of the other direct techniques, but the necessary instruments are expensive and the method is technically difficult.
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U2 - 10.1080/00325481.1983.11698393
DO - 10.1080/00325481.1983.11698393
M3 - Article
C2 - 6878089
AN - SCOPUS:0020544659
SN - 0032-5481
VL - 74
SP - 239
EP - 245
JO - Postgraduate Medicine
JF - Postgraduate Medicine
IS - 2
ER -