A hyperdense artery sign and middle cerebral artery dissection

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 1319-1322

  Yakushiji, Yusuke ^a   Haraguchi, Yoshinori ^a   Soejima, Shu ^a   Takase, Yukinori ^a   Uchino, Akira ^a   Koizumi, Shunzo ^a   Kuroda, Yasuo ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Computed tomography; Hyperdense middle cerebral artery artery sign; Intracranial artery dissection

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; BRAIN; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845661155     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1888     Document Type: Article

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