The predictive value of early CT and angiography for fatal hemispheric swelling in acute stroke

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 839-846

  Kucinski, Thomas ^a   Koch, Christoph ^a   Grzyska, Ulrich ^a   Freitag, Heinz Jörg ^a   Krömer, Hannelore ^a   Zeumer, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPERFUSION; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032470857     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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