"Brush sign" on susceptibility-weighted MR imaging indicates the severity of Moyamoya disease

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1697-1702

  Horie, Nobutaka ^a   Morikawa, M ^a   Nozaki, A ^b   Hayashi, K ^a   Suyama, K ^a   Nagata, I ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GE HealthCare Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054044290     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2568     Document Type: Article

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