Systematic review of methods for assessing leptomeningeal collateral flow

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 576-582

  McVerry, F ^a   Liebeskind, D S ^b   Muir, Keith W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; EMBASE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEPTOMENINGEAL COLLATERAL FLOW; MEDLINE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MENINGES; PERFUSION IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE;

EID: 84858663090     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2794     Document Type: Article

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