Is TEE useful in patients with small subcortical strokes?

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 522-527

  Rabinstein, A A ^a,d   Chirinos, J A ^b   Fernandez, F R ^b   Zambrano, J P ^c  

^a Cerebrovascular Division   (United States)

^b Division of General Medicine

^c JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embolism; Lacunar; Stroke; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CALCULATION; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; REVIEW; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STROKE; SYNDROME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33744761526     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: 14681331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2006.01283.x     Document Type: Review

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