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Transcranial Doppler Examination

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Flow in the intracranial vessels, especially in the arteries, can be examined with TCD. The ultrasound can hardly penetrate the skull, but in certain regions, the ultrasound windows, the bone is missing (such as the orbit, foramen magnum) or thin, the trabecular layer is missing (such as the temporal window), so the examination can be performed via these windows.

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Abbreviations

RBC:

Red blood cell

US:

Ultrasound

TCD:

Transcranial Doppler

MCA:

Median cerebral artery

ACA:

Anterior cerebral artery

PCA:

Posterior cerebral artery

VA:

Vertebral artery

BA:

Basilar artery

OA:

Ophthalmic artery

ACoA:

Anterior communicating artery

PCoA:

Posterior communicating artery

AVM:

Anteriovenous malformation

PM D:

Power motion Doppler

CCC:

Common carotid compression (compression test of the common carotid artery

AVM:

Arteriovenous malformation

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    Gyula Pánczél M.D., PhD

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Pánczél, G. (2016). Transcranial Doppler Examination. In: Somlai, J., Kovács, T. (eds) Neuro-Ophthalmology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28956-4_26

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