Brain computed tomography angiographic scans as the sole diagnostic examination for excluding aneurysms in patients with perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage [9]

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Turner, Raymond ^a   Obuchowski, Nancy ^a   Gonugunta, Vivek ^a   Kelly, Michael ^a   Woo, Henry H ^a   Fiorella, David ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANEURYSM; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LETTER; MESENCEPHALON; MORBIDITY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37649001052     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000306130.36355.93     Document Type: Letter

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