Accuracy of three-step diagnosis in discriminating subtypes of acute ischemic stroke

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-25

  Tei, Hideaki ^a   Uchiyama, Shinichiro ^b   Koshimizu, Kenji ^a   Murakami, Hirohiko ^a   Iwata, Makoto ^b  

^a Toda Central General Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

atherothrombotic; brain infarction; cardioembolic; classification of brain infarction; lacunar

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030970359     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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