Early motor evoked potentials in acute stroke: Adjunctive measure to MRI for assessment of prognosis in acute stroke within 6 hours

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 130-134

  Wöhrle, Johannes C ^a   Behrens, Stephan ^a   Mielke, Orell ^a   Hennerici, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ischaemic stroke; Magnetic resonance imaging; Motor evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 4043155784     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079265     Document Type: Article

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