title: Echocontrast agents in neurosonology.
abstract: Temporal hyperostosis is the major limitation of transtemporal insonation of the basal cerebral arteries in transcranial Doppler sonography. New contrast agents capable of traversing the pulmonary bed offer new prospects for overcoming this limitation. Echocontrast agents improve the diagnostic potentiality of ultrasound techniques, increasing the diagnostic accuracy of these methods in cerebrovascular diseases, vascular malformations, venous pathologies and tumors, and may contribute to reducing the need for more invasive and expensive examinations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Totaro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Del Sette
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marini
mesh_terms: D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003287:Contrast Media; D005466:Fluorocarbons; D006801:Humans; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D011134:Polysaccharides; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017585:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial / Q000379:methods*; D010420:Pentanes
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D005466:Fluorocarbons; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D011134:Polysaccharides; C096494:BY 963; C059891:SHU 508; C008806:perfluoropentane; D010420:Pentanes