The detection of carotid plaque rupture caused by intraplaque hemorrhage by serial high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging: a case report

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 634-639

  Kawahara, Ichiro ^a   Nakamoto, Morito ^a   Hayashi, Kentaro ^a   Kitagawa, Naoki ^a   Tsutsumi, Keisuke ^a   Nagata, Izumi ^a   Morikawa, Minoru ^a   Hayashi, Tomayoshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque rupture; High resolution MRI; Intraplaque hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 56949097212     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2007.06.070     Document Type: Article

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