Little association between intracranial arterial stenosis and lacunar stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-18

  Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a,b   Doubal, Fergus N ^a   Eadie, Elizabeth ^a   Chappell, Francesca ^a   Shuler, Kirsten ^a,b   Cvoro, Vera ^a  

^a SFC Brain Imaging Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atheroma; Lacunar stroke; Middle cerebral artery; Small vessel disease; Stenosis; Stroke; Transcranial Doppler ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL STROKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LACUNAR STROKE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 77958489375     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319773     Document Type: Article

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