Intracranial large artery disease among OCSP subtypes in ethnic South Asian ischemic stroke patients

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 147-149

  De Silva, Deidre Anne ^a   Woon, Fung Peng ^b   Pin, Lee Moi ^c   Chen, Christopher P L H ^d   Chang, Hui Meng ^a   Wong, Meng Cheong ^a  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d National Medical Research Council   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ischemic Stroke Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project South Asian Intracranial disease Lacunar

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BRAIN ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINESE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY STROKE PROJECT CLASSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH ASIA;

AGED; BANGLADESH; BHUTAN; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE; SRI LANKA; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 34547677750     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.04.020     Document Type: Article

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