Neuropsychological changes in patients with carotid stenosis after carotid endarterectomy

European Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 145-150

  Fukunaga, Shinya ^a,b,c   Okada, Yasushi ^b   Inoue, Tooru ^b   Hattori, Fumitada ^c   Hirata, Koichi ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Nagao Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid endarterectomy; Carotid stenosis; Cerebral perfusion reserve; Frontal lobe function; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAROTID STENOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33745258675     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093214     Document Type: Article

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