CT angiography clot burden score and collateral score: Correlation with clinical and radiologic outcomes in acute middle cerebral artery infarct

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 525-531

  Tan, I Y L ^a   Demchuk, A M ^c   Hopyan, J ^a   Zhang, L ^b   Gladstone, D ^a   Wong, K ^a   Martin, M ^a   Symons, S P ^a   Fox, A J ^a   Aviv, R I ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; GADOBUTROL; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64549101679     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1408     Document Type: Article

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