The real estate factor: Quantifying the impact of infarct location on stroke severity

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 194-197

  Menezes, Nina M ^a   Ay, Hakan ^a   Zhu, Ming Wang ^a   Lopez, Chloe J ^a   Singhal, Aneesh B ^a   Karonen, Jari O ^b   Aronen, Hannu J ^c,d,e   Liu, Yawu ^b   Nuutinen, Juho ^b   Koroshetz, Walter J ^a   Sorensen, A Gregory ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^d CENTRE FOR MILITARY MEDICINE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Infarcts; Magnetic resonance imaging; Models; Outcome; Statistical; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS;

EID: 33845944187     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000251792.76080.45     Document Type: Article

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