Early stroke risk: Tissue is the issue

Neurology

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1214-1215

  Barrett, Kevin M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY OCCLUSION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; METHODOLOGY;

HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STROKE;

EID: 82255160652     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182311fcc     Document Type: Editorial

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