Cerebral microbleeds predict first-ever symptomatic cerebrovascular events

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 825-828

  Nishikawa, Tomofumi ^a   Ueba, Tetsuya ^a   Kajiwara, Motohiro ^a   Fujisawa, Ichro ^a   Miyamatsu, Naomi ^b   Yamashita, Kohsuke ^a  

^a Kishiwada City Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Cerebral microbleeds; Cerebrovascular disease; Intracerebral hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; STROKE;

EID: 70350571191     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2009.08.011     Document Type: Article

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