Paradoxical embolisation and cerebral white matter lesions in dementia

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 961, 2008, Pages 30-34

  Purandare, N ^a   Oude Voshaar, R C ^a,b   McCollum, C ^a   Jackson, Alan ^a   Burns, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; BRAIN EMBOLISM; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 38449117126     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/90498392     Document Type: Article

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