CT and MRI early vessel signs reflect clot composition in acute stroke

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1237-1243

  Liebeskind, David S ^a   Sanossian, Nerses ^a   Yong, William H ^a   Starkman, Sidney ^a   Tsang, Michael P ^a   Moya, Antonio L ^a   Zheng, David D ^a   Abolian, Anna M ^a   Kim, Doojin ^a   Ali, Latisha K ^a   Shah, Samir H ^a   Towfighi, Amytis ^a   Ovbiagele, Bruce ^a   Kidwell, Chelsea S ^a   Tateshima, Satoshi ^a   Jahan, Reza ^a   Duckwiler, Gary R ^a   Viñuela, Fernando ^a   Salamon, Noriko ^a   Villablanca, J Pablo ^a   Vinters, Harry V ^a   Marder, Victor J ^a   Saver, Jeffrey L ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebral ischemia; CT; MRI; stroke; thrombus

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD PLATELETS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FIBRIN; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LEUKOCYTES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955482831     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.605576     Document Type: Article

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