Hypoplasia or occlusion of the ipsilateral cranial venous drainage is associated with early fatal edema of middle cerebral artery infarction

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3736-3739

  Yu, Wengui ^a   Rives, Joanna ^a   Welch, Babu ^a   White, Jonathan ^a   Stehel, Edward ^a   Samson, Duke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial venous sinus; Fatal edema; MCA infarction

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRESIA; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL SINUS; CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSVERSE SINUS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN HYPOPLASIA; VEIN MALFORMATION; VEIN OCCLUSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL VEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMORBIDITY; CRANIAL SINUSES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; INCIDENCE; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73449088698     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.563080     Document Type: Article

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