Brain, Vol. 125, No. 8, 1226-1227,
August 2002
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CEREBROVASCULAR ULTRASOUND
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
CEREBROVASCULAR ULTRASOUND
Edited by Michael Hennerici and Stephen Meairs
2001. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Price £140. pp. 427. ISBN 0521632234.
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Cerebrovascular ultrasound is a broad topic. The explosion of research activity and technology in the last 15 years means that this is now an extensive subject covering all aspects of carotid and intracranial vascular disease. However, despite this, it has been a somewhat neglected topic from the more traditional perspective of neuroscience departments where emphasis has been on X-ray and magnetic resonance techniques. Hopefully, this excellent work with contributions from 56 authors (including the two editors) from Europe and North America,