Interobserver agreement in assessing early CT signs of middle cerebral artery infarction

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1743-1748

  Von Kummer, Rüdiger ^a,f   Holle, Rolf ^a   Grzyska, Ulrich ^b   Hofmann, Erich ^c   Jansen, Olav ^a   Petersen, Dirk ^d   Schumacher, Martin ^e   Sartor, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f Department of Neuroradiology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Arteries, cerebral, middle; Brain, computed tomography; Brain, infarction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY;

BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029905161     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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