Associations of clinical stroke misclassification ('Clinical-Imaging Dissociation') in acute ischemic stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 395-402

  Potter, Gillian ^a   Doubal, Fergus ^a   Jackson, Caroline ^a   Sudlow, Cathie ^a   Dennis, Martin ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute ischemic stroke; Acute stroke imaging; Diffusion weighted imaging; Infarction; Stroke subtype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSATION DISORDERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 76749125377     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000286342     Document Type: Article

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