Intracranial Hemorrhage in patients with cancer

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 373-381

  Velander, Alan J ^a   DeAngelis, Lisa M ^b   Navi, Babak B ^c  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Hemorrhagic stroke; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Intracranial hemorrhage; Malignancy; Neoplasm; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; STEROID; SUNITINIB;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC INTRAPARENCHYMAL HEMORRHAGE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TUMOR BLEEDING;

BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84865601591     PISSN: 15233804     EISSN: 15346242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-012-0250-3     Document Type: Article

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