Is the common carotid artery intima-media thickness associated with functional outcome after acute ischaemic stroke?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1197-1199

  Ellul, J ^a,b   Talelli, P ^a   Terzis, G ^a   Chrysanthopoulou, A ^a   Gioldasis, G ^a   Papapetropoulos, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTIMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUNICA MEDIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 3442885476     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.017558     Document Type: Article

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