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Case Reports in Vascular Medicine
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 354382, 4 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/354382
Case Report

Detection of Unstable Carotid Plaque by Tissue Doppler Imaging and Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in a Patient with Recurrent Amaurosis Fugax

Hagen Kunte,1 Ralph-Ingo Rückert,2 Charlotte Schmidt,1 Lutz Harms,1 Antje-Susanne Kasper,1 Rainer Hellweg,1 Maria Grigoryev,1 Thomas Fischer,1 and Golo Kronenberg1

1Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
2Franziskus-Krankenhaus, Budapester Straße 15-19, 10787 Berlin, Germany

Received 3 December 2012; Accepted 27 December 2012

Academic Editors: R. A. Bishara and Y.-J. Chen

Copyright © 2013 Hagen Kunte et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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