Preferred involvement of the basal ganglia after lenticulostriate infarction as a possible indicator of different gray and white matter vulnerability

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 494-496

  Nagakane, Yoshinari ^a   Yamada, Kei ^a   Ohara, Tomoyuki ^a   Yoshikawa, Kenji ^a   Kuriyama, Nagato ^a   Takayasu, Natsuko ^a   Kasai, Takashi ^a   Yuki, Natsuko ^a   Nishimura, Tsunehiko ^a   Mizuno, Toshiki ^a   Nakagawa, Masanori ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Lacunar infarction; MRI; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARGATROBAN; NORPHENAZONE; OZAGREL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LENTICULOSTRIATE ARTERY INFARCT; LENTICULOSTRIATE ARTERY INFARCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; CAPSULA INTERNA; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PUTAMEN; STROKE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; BRAIN INFARCTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL CAPSULE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURONS; PUTAMEN; STROKE;

EID: 39349113854     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.484337     Document Type: Article

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