Association of right-to-left shunt with frontal white matter lesions in T2-weighted MR imaging of stroke patients

Neuroradiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 299-304

  Liu, Jian Ren ^a,b   Plötz, Björn Moritz ^b   Rohr, Axel ^b   Stingele, Robert ^b   Jansen, Olav ^b   Alfke, Karsten ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pattern of white matter lesions; PFO; Right to left shunt; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65449153300     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-009-0496-9     Document Type: Article

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