Silent cerebral ischemia detected with diffusion-weighted imaging in patients treated with protected and unprotected carotid artery stenting

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2389-2393

  Cosottini, Mirco ^a,b   Michelassi, Maria Chiara ^a   Puglioli, Michele ^b   Lazzarotti, Guido ^a   Orlandi, Giovanni ^a   Marconi, Franco ^a   Parenti, Giuliano ^a   Bartolozzi, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Service of Neuroradiology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angioplasty and stenting; Carotid stenosis; Embolism; Endovascular treatment; Magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 27644511321     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000185676.05358.f2     Document Type: Article

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