FLAIR vascular hyperintensity may predict stroke after TIA

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 617-619

  Sanossian, Nerses ^a   Ances, Beau M ^c   Shah, Samir H ^b   Kim, Doojin ^b   Saver, Jeffrey L ^b   Liebeskind, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collateral; FLAIR; MRI; Stroke; TIA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LEPTOMENINX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PREDICTION; STROKE; SYMPTOM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WEAKNESS;

AGED; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 34347354417     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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