Aortic atheromas and acute ischemic stroke: A transesophageal echocardiographic study in an ethnically mixed population

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1560-1566

  Di Tullio, M R ^a   Sacco, R L ^a   Gersony, D ^a   Nayak, H ^a   Weslow, R G ^a   Kargman, D E ^a   Homma, S ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030013801     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.46.6.1560     Document Type: Article

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