Transient ischemic attack with abnormal diffusion-weighted imaging results: What's in a name?

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1080-1082

  Caplan, Louis R ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 34547873097     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.8.1080     Document Type: Editorial

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