Looking beyond the lumen does make all the difference [9]

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1648-

  Moody, Alan R ^a   Bitar, Richard ^a   Leung, General ^a   Maggisano, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH; ARTERY WALL; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLEEDING; CAROTID ARTERY ATHEROMA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SYMPTOM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBOEMBOLISM; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; RUPTURE;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 33745938844     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000227373.83579.f2     Document Type: Letter

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