The triple rule-out for acute ischemic stroke: Imaging the brain, carotid arteries, aorta, and heart

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1290-1296

  Furtado, A D ^a   Adraktas, D D ^a   Brasic, N ^a   Cheng, S C ^a   Ordovas, K ^a   Smith, W S ^a   Lewin, M R ^a   Chun, K ^a   Chien, J D ^a   Schaeffer, S ^a   Wintermark, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; RADIATION DOSE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 77955675014     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2075     Document Type: Article

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