ArticleJournal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging2022
Ultrasound characteristics of carotid web.
Article in Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07495241 (Prevalence of Carotid Web in Youth Assessed by Duplex Sonography), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers.
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Prevalence of Carotid Web in Youth Assessed by Duplex Sonography: a Cross-Sectional Study
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- Intima-Media Thickening with Carotid Webs: A Case Report of a Potentially High-Risk Association.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Operative Procedures for Ultrasound Assessment of Extracranial Artery Disease: A Narrative Review by the Italian Society for Vascular Investigation (SIDV).Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Carotid Web as a Cause of Ischemic Stroke: Effective Treatment with Endovascular Techniques.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
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- The Carotid Web: A Rare Abnormality of the Intimal Layer Causing Ischemic Stroke in a Young Female Patient.Cureus · 2024Article
- New asymptomatic thrombosis caused by carotid web during the acute period of cerebral infarction.BMC neurology · 2023Article
- Advances in Management of the Stroke Etiology One-Percenters.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2023Review
- The carotid web: Current research status and imaging features.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Ultrasound characteristics of carotid web.Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging · 2022Article
- Multimodal ultrasound-based morphological differences between symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid web.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
background and purposeCarotid web (CaW) is a cause of recurrent ischemic stroke that remains underdiagnosed using Duplex ultrasound (DUS). Improved methods and description of its ultrasound's features could allow better detection of CaW. Ultrasound microflow imaging (MFI) is a blood flow imaging technique sensitive to slow flow that could increase CaW detection. This study aimed to describe ultrasound features of CaW using B-mode imaging and MFI.
methodsIn a retrospective monocentric study, patients with CaW on CT angiography who underwent DUS examination of carotid arteries were included. DUS was performed by two nonblinded experienced neurosonologists. The specificity of CaW ultrasound features was evaluated using a group of patients with carotid atherosclerotic plaque (AP).
resultsTwenty-four patients with CaW were included. Mean age (standard deviation) was 48 years (11). Seventeen (71%) were females. Fifteen (63%) CaWs were symptomatic. MFI was available for 22 patients. B-mode imaging demonstrated the characteristic CaW appearance in 19/24 (79%) patients as a protruding triangular iso-hypoechoic lesion on longitudinal view. CaW were detected on axial view in only 9/24 (38%) patients. MFI displayed slow blood flow above CaW during systole and allowed it delineation, appearing as a thin triangular endoluminal defect in 18/22 (82%) cases. Based on MFI and B-mode, 21/22 (95%) CaWs were visible, including three CaWs only with MFI. These ultrasound features were not found among 24 patients with AP.
conclusionWe report the ultrasound features from a series of 24 CaW. The use of MFI in addition to B-mode imaging improved the detection rate of CaW.
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