DWI-FLAIR mismatch for the identification of patients with acute ischaemic stroke within 4·5 h of symptom onset (PRE-FLAIR): A multicentre observational study

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 978-986

  Thomalla, Götz ^a   Cheng, Bastian ^a   Ebinger, Martin ^b   Hao, Qing ^c   Tourdias, Thomas ^d   Wu, Ona ^e   Kim, Jong S ^f   Breuer, Lorenz ^g   Singer, Oliver C ^h   Warach, Steven ⁱ   Christensen, Soren ^j   Treszl, Andras ^a   Forkert, Nils D ^a   Galinovic, Ivana ^b   Rosenkranz, Michael ^a   Engelhorn, Tobias ^g   Köhrmann, Martin ^g   Endres, Matthias ^b   Kang, Dong Wha ^f   Dousset, Vincent ^d   Sorensen, A Gregory ^e   Liebeskind, David S ^c   Fiebach, Jochen B ^b   Fiehler, Jens ^a   Gerloff, Christian ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University Bordeaux   (France)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^h GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80054767683     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(11)70192-2     Document Type: Article

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