Transient Ischemic Attack: Definition, Diagnosis, and Risk Stratification

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-313

  Sorensen, A Gregory ^a   Ay Hakan, H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Definition; Diffusion weighted imaging; Imaging; Risk scores; Risk stratification; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

APHASIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; STRATIFICATION; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79957878572     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: 15579867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2011.01.013     Document Type: Review

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