Perfusion CT improves diagnostic accuracy for hyperacute ischemic stroke in the 3-hour window: Study of 100 patients with diffusion MRI confirmation

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-79

  Lin, Ke ^a,b   Do, Kinh G ^a   Ong, Phat ^a   Shapiro, Maksim ^a   Babb, James S ^a   Siller, Keith A ^a   Pramanik, Bidyut K ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Radiology HCC Basement MRI ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke imaging; Hyperacute ischemic stroke; Perfusion CT

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PERFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049105607     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000219300     Document Type: Article

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