Atherosclerotic Disease of the Aortic Arch and the Risk of Ischemic Stroke

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 331, Issue 22, 1994, Pages 1474-1479

  Amarenco, Pierre ^a   Touboul, Pierre Jean ^a   Bousser, Marie Germaine ^a   Cohen, Ariel ^b   Chauvel, Christophe ^b   Tzourio, Christophe ^c   Bertrand, Bernard ^d   Hommel, Marc ^e   Besson, Gerard ^e  

^a Services de Neurologie   (France)

^b Cardiologie   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^d Cardiologique ^*  (France)

^e Cliniques Neurologique ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTA; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0027972936     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199412013312202     Document Type: Article

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