Extent of intra-arterial calcification on head CT is predictive of the degree of intracranial atherosclerosis on digital subtraction angiography

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-48

  Kassab, Mounzer Y ^a   Gupta, Rishi ^a   Majid, Arshad ^a   Farooq, Muhammad U ^a   Giles, Brian P ^b   Johnson, Mark D ^b   Graybeal, Dion F ^c   Rappard, George ^d  

^a East Lansing   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Glendale CA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized tomography; Digital subtraction angiography; Intracranial atherosclerosis; Intracranial intra arterial calcifications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CALCINOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66049089641     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000219296     Document Type: Article

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