Clinical implication of cerebral artery calcification on brain CT

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 332-337

  Sohn, Young H ^a   Cheon, Hwa Y ^a   Jeon, Pyoung ^b   Kang, Suk Y ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b National Health Insurance Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Angiography; Brain computed tomography; Calcium; Cerebral arteries; Ischemic stroke; Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN; CALCINOSIS; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 10844266077     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080772     Document Type: Article

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