Contralateral carotid intraplaque hemorrhage may reduce the predictive value of fat-suppressed T1-weighted MRI in symptomatic carotid disease [1]

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Tang, Tjun Y ^a   Howarth, Simon P ^a   Walsh, Stewart R ^a   Gaunt, Michael E ^a   Gillard, Jonathan H ^a  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY INTRAPLAQUE HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RISK; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 36448960581     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.494815     Document Type: Letter

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