Mechanism of infarction involving ipsilateral carotid and posterior cerebral artery territories

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 445-451

  Yang, Jae Hoon ^a   Choi, Hye Yoen ^a   Nam, Hyo Suk ^a   Kim, Seo Hyun ^a   Han, Sang Won ^a   Heo, Ji Hoe ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Brain infarction; Carotid atherosclerosis; Fetal posterior cerebral artery; Posterior cerebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; REGISTRIES; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 35548955612     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000108435     Document Type: Article

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