Failure to identify cerebral infarct mechanisms from topography of vascular territory lesions

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1067-1074

  Hennerici, Michael ^a   Daffertshofer, Michael ^a   Jakobs, Lothar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIMODIPINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032471887     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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