Paracentral strip infarcts of the middle cerebral artery: Borderzone ischaemia or cortical artery occlusion?

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-222

  Iwanaga, Takeshi ^a,b   Arakawa, Shuji ^a,b   Siritho, Sasitorn ^a,b   Fitt, Greg ^b,c   Dewey, Helen M ^a,b,c   Chambers, Brian R ^a,b,c   Donnan, Geoffrey A ^a,b,c  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artery to artery embolism; Atherosclerosis; Cardiac embolism; Cortical infarct; Middle cerebral artery; Strip infarct

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE UNIT; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58749091131     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196818     Document Type: Article

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