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National Taiwan University Hospital

Vertebral artery hypoplasia is evaluated by color-coded ultrasonography

Published in Telemedicine Business Week, August 25th, 2004

Researchers in Taiwan have studied color-coded duplex ultrasonography to evaluate vertebral artery hypoplasia and asymmetry.

J.S. Jeng and colleagues of the National Taiwan University Hospital explained, "Distinguishing stenosis and hypoplasia of the extracranial vertebral artery (VA) is clinically important, but there is no agreement in defining VA hypoplasia. We endeavored to attain reference values for VA flow volume by color Doppler ultrasonography (CDU), analyze age and gender effects on VA flow volume, and develop a definition of VA hypoplasia. CDU was performed in 447 subjects free of cerebrovascular diseases or carotid stenosis.

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