Predictors for malignant middle cerebral artery infarctions: A postmortem analysis

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 815-820

  Jaramillo, A ^a,b   Gongora Rivera F ^a,b   Labreuche, J ^b   Hauw, J J ^a   Amarenco, P ^a,b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CRANIECTOMY; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; AGED; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33645820596     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000203649.60211.0e     Document Type: Article

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