Acute stroke assessment with CT: Do we need multimodal evaluation?

Radiology

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-86

  Kloska, Stephan P ^a   Nabavi, Darius G ^a   Gaus, Christiane ^a   Nam, Eun Mi ^a   Klotz, Ernst ^b   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain, CT; Brain, infarction; Cerebral blood vessels, flow dynamics; Computed tomography (CT), angiography; Computed tomography (CT), perfusion study

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4644309066     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2331030028     Document Type: Article

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