Assessment of Intracranial Collateral Circulation Using Novel TCCS Grading System in Patients With Symptomatic Carotid Occlusion

Objectives: To establish a novel transcranial color-coded sonography (TCCS) grading system for collateral circulation in cases of symptomatic chronic total carotid occlusion (TCO), and to correlate this new grading system with cerebrovascular reserve capacity (CVR) measured by SPECT.Methods: Thirty-...

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Main Authors: Foad Abd-Allah, Haytham Rizk, Mohammad Ahmed Farrag, Mohamed Hafez Shaaban, Ahmed Nasreldein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2020.00666/full