Lesions visualized by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in transient ischemic attacks

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 103-108

  Kimura, Kazumi ^a   Minematsu, Kazuo ^a   Wada, Kuniyasu ^a   Yonemura, Kiminobu ^a   Yasaka, Masahiro ^a   Yamaguchi, Takenori ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial disease; Contrast enhancement; Emboligenic cardiac disease; Ischemic lesions; Magnetic resonance imaging; Transient ischemic attacks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFUSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034651536     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(99)00305-6     Document Type: Article

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