Vertebral artery halo sign in patients with stroke: A key clue for the prompt diagnosis of giant cell arteritis

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3287-3290

  García García, Jorge ^a   Ayo Martín, Oscar ^a   Argandoña Palacios, Lucía ^a   Segura, Tomas ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

Author keywords

acute stroke; etiology; imaging; neursonology; steroids; ultrasound; vasculitis; vertebral artery ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERITIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SURGEON; TEMPORAL ARTERY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERTEBRAL ARTERITIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 80055004372     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.625152     Document Type: Article

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