Incidence and prognosis of <50 symptomatic vertebral or basilar artery stenosis: Prospective population-based study

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 982-988

  Marquardt, L ^a   Kuker, W ^b   Chandratheva, A ^a   Geraghty, O ^a   Rothwell, P M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basilar artery stenosis; Stroke; TIA; Vertebral artery stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; STROKE; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 65249165991     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp026     Document Type: Article

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