Association between carotid atherosclerosis plaque with high signal intensity on T1-weighted imaging and subsequent ipsilateral ischemic events

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-67

  Kurosaki, Yoshitaka ^a   Yoshida, Kazumichi ^b   Endo, Hideki ^b   Chin, Masaki ^b   Yamagata, Sen ^b  

^a Kitano Hospital   (Japan)

^b KURASHIKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Black blood magnetic resonance imaging; Carotid artery disease; Intraplaque hemorrhage; Plaque imaging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STENOSIS; T1 WEIGHTED IMAGING;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RECURRENCE;

EID: 78650866715     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181fc60a8     Document Type: Article

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