Reliability of aortic MRI at 3 Tesla in patients with acute cryptogenic stroke

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 540-546

  Harloff, A ^a,b   Dudler, P ^a   Frydrychowicz, A ^a   Strecker, C ^a   Stroh, A L ^a   Geibel, A ^a   Weiller, C ^a   Hetzel, A ^a   Hennig, J ^a   Markl, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; THORACIC AORTA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 42449137866     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.125211     Document Type: Article

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