Analysis of incidence and risk factors for progression in patients with intracranial steno-occlusive lesions by serial magnetic resonance angiography

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 680-685

  Miyazawa, Nobuhiko ^a   Akiyama, Iwao ^b   Yamagata, Zentaro ^c  

^a Kofu Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

^b Akiyama Neurosurgical Clinic   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cerebral artery; Magnetic resonance angiography; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERURICEMIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34547874611     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.05.021     Document Type: Article

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