Nonionic contrast neurotoxicity after coronary angiography mimicking subarachnoid hemorrhage

European Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 249-251

  Velden, Joachim ^a   Milz, Petra ^b   Winkler, Frank ^a   Seelos, Klaus ^b   Hamann, Gerhard F ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOMEPROL;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISORIENTATION; DROWSINESS; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0038639129     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070198     Document Type: Article

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