Ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack after head and neck radiotherapy: A review

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2410-2418

  Plummer, Chris ^a   Henderson, Robert D ^b   O'Sullivan, John D ^b   Read, Stephen J ^b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

cerebrovascular disease; head and neck cancer; ischemic stroke; radiation vasculopathy; radiotherapy; TIA

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATHOGENESIS; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; RESTENOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VASA VASORUM;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052398913     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.615203     Document Type: Review

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