Retinal fractals and acute lacunar stroke

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 107-111

  Cheung, Ning ^a   Liew, Gerald ^b   Lindley, Richard I ^b   Liu, Erica Y ^c   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,b   Hand, Peter ^d   Baker, Michelle ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^b   Wong, Tien Y ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LACUNAR STROKE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINAL FRACTAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; STROKE;

EID: 77954037627     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.22011     Document Type: Article

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