Aetiopathogenesis and long-term outcome of isolated pontine infarcts

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 212-217

  Vemmos, Konstantinos N ^a   Spengos, Konstantinos ^b,c   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^b   Manios, Efstathios ^a   Zis, Vassilios ^b   Vassilopoulos, Demetris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ischaemic stroke; Long term outcome; Mortality; Pons; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PONS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 15244347090     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-005-0639-9     Document Type: Article

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