Wallerian degeneration after stroke: A new prognostic factor?;Degenerescência walleriana pós-enfarte - Um novo factor prognóstico?

Acta Medica Portuguesa

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 499-502

  Soares Fernandes, João ^a   Beleza, Pedro ^a   Ribeiro, Manuel ^a   Maré, Ricardo ^a   Almeida, Fátima ^a   Rocha, Jaime ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE BRAGA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROGNOSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 34447630271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16460758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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