Differences in Clinical Features and Computed Tomographic Findings between Embolie and Non-Embolic Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Quantitative Differential Diagnosis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-148

  Takano, Kentaro ^a,b,c   Yamaguchi, Takenori ^a   Minematsu, Kazuo ^a   Sawada, Tohru ^a   Omae, Teruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b National Fukuoka Higashi Hospital   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA HIGASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral angiography; Cerebral embolism; Cerebral thrombosis; Discriminatory analysis; Multivariate analysis; Quantification theory

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031992764     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.141     Document Type: Article

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