Asymptomatic carotid lesions and silent cerebral infarction

Stroke

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 566-570

  Hougaku, Hidetaka ^a   Matsumoto, Masayasu ^a   Handa, Nobuo ^a   Maeda, Hiroaki ^a   Itoh, Taiji ^a   Tsukamoto, Yoshitane ^a   Kamada, Takenobu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid arteries; Cerebral infarction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; ULCER; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGE; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028040290     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.25.3.566     Document Type: Article

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