Sex differences in intracranial arterial bifurcations

Gender Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-155

  Lindekleiv, Haakon M ^a,b   Valen Sendstad, Kristian ^c   Morgan, Michael K ^d   Mardal, Kent Andre ^c   Faulder, Kenneth ^e   Magnus, Jeanette H ^f   Waterloo, Knut ^a   Romner, Bertil ^a,b   Ingebrigtsen, Tor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Dalcross Private Hospital   (Australia)

^f TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; intracranial aneurysms; sex differences; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHEAR STRESS; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NEW SOUTH WALES; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 77954913724     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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