Plaque hemorrhage is a marker of thromboembolic activity in patients with symptomatic carotid disease

Radiology

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 538-545

  Altaf, Nishath ^a   Goode, Stephen D ^a   Beech, Andrew ^a   Gladman, John R F ^a   Morgan, Paul S ^a   MacSweeney, Shane T ^a   Auer, Dorothee P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID PLAQUE HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID STENOSIS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 79952343072     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10100198     Document Type: Article

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