Is CT or MRI the method of choice for imaging patients with acute stroke? Why should men divide if fate has united?

Stroke

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2144-2145

  Tatlisumak, Turgut ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion weighted; Stroke, ischemic

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

ANEURYSM CLIP; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLAUSTROPHOBIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036712492     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000026862.42440.AA     Document Type: Editorial

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