Global hemispheric CT hypoperfusion may differentiate headache with associated neurological deficits and lymphocytosis from acute stroke

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 492-493

  Pettersen, Jacqueline A ^a,b,c   Aviv, Richard I ^b,c   Black, Sandra E ^a,b,c   Fox, Allan J ^b,c   Lim, Andrew ^c   Murray, Brian J ^b,c  

^a HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; CT; CT perfusion; HaNDL syndrome; Headaches; Oligemia

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEADACHE; HEADACHE WITH ASSOCIATED NEUROLOGICAL DEFICIT AND LYMPHOCYTOSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STROKE; VASCULAR HEADACHE; ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEADACHE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39349108411     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.493791     Document Type: Article

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