Lack of evidence for arterial ischemia in transient global amnesia

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 476-479

  Toledo, Manuel ^a,b   Pujadas, Francesc ^a   Grivé, Elisenda ^a   Álvarez Sabin, José ^a   Quintana, Manuel ^a   Rovira, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain ischemia; Neuroimaging and MRI; Transient global amnesia; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; AGED; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AMNESIA, TRANSIENT GLOBAL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 39349100542     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.498303     Document Type: Article

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