Cerebral venous thrombosis: Diagnostic accuracy of combined, dynamic and static, contrast-enhanced 4D MR venography

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 527-535

  Meckel, Stephan ^a   Reisinger, C ^a   Bremerich, J ^a   Damm, D ^a   Wolbers, M ^a,b   Engelter, S ^a   Scheffler, K ^a   Wetzel, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN VEIN; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELAXATION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL VEINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949494516     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1869     Document Type: Article

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