Dynamic perfusion computed tomography in the diagnosis of cerebral vasospasm

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 319-324

  Sviri, Gill E ^a,b   Britz, Gavin W ^b   Lewis, David H ^b   Newell, David W ^b   Zaaroor, Menashe ^a   Cohen, Wendy ^b  

^a Rambam Maimonides Medical Center   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Computed tomography; Perfusion; Perfusion computed tomography; Single photon emission computed tomography; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Transcranial doppler; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 33748292874     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000222819.18834.33     Document Type: Article

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