Change in perfusion in acute nondominant hemisphere stroke may be better estimated by tests of hemispatial neglect than by the national institutes of health stroke scale

Stroke

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2392-2396

  Hillis, Argye E ^a   Wityk, Robert J ^a   Barker, Peter B ^a   Ulatowski, John A ^a   Jacobs, Michael A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Magnetic resonance imaging, perfusion weighted; Reperfusion; Stroke assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRAWING; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECALL; STENT; STROKE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0141707871     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000089681.84041.69     Document Type: Article

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