Border zone infarcts: Pathophysiologic and imaging characteristics

Radiographics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1201-1214

  Mangla, Rajiv ^a   Kolar, Balasubramanya ^a   Almast, Jeevak ^a   Ekholm, Sven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBELLUM; CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 80052877770     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.315105014     Document Type: Article

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