Detection of cerebral embolic signals in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 774-779

  Dahl, Arve ^a   Omdal, R ^b   Waterloo, K ^c   Joakimsen, O ^c   Jacobsen, E A ^a   Koldingsnes, W ^c   Mellgren, S I ^c  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; BLOOD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LIPID;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; LIPIDS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 33646846789     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.084285     Document Type: Article

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