Mechanisms of bihemispheric brain infarctions in the anterior circulation on diffusion-weighted images

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 809-814

  Saito, Kozue ^a   Moriwaki, Hiroshi ^a   Oe, Hiroshi ^a   Miyashita, Kotaro ^a   Nagatsuka, Kazuyuki ^a   Ueno, Satoshi ^a   Naritomi, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 30544437055     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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