Diagnosis of lacunar infarcts within 6 hours of onset by clinical and CT criteria versus MRI

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-72

  Rajajee, Venkatakrishna ^a,b   Kidwell, Chelsea ^a   Starkman, Sidney ^a   Ovbiagele, Bruce ^a   Alger, Jeffrey ^a   Villablanca, Pablo ^a   Saver, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Clinical vs MRI diagnosis; Lacune; Small deep infarcts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; BRAIN INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38049067747     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2007.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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