Brain magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities in adult patients with sickle cell disease correlation with transcranial doppler findings

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2408-2412

  Silva, Gisele Sampaio ^a,c   Vicari, Perla ^a   Figueiredo, Maria Stella ^a   Junior, Henrique Carrete ^a   Idagawa, Marcos Hideki ^a   Massaro, Ayrton Roberto ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Fleury   (Brazil)

^c Unit 7K   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Sickle cell anemia; Stroke; Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL STENOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STENOSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BRAIN; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650096495     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.537415     Document Type: Article

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