High rate of magnetic resonance imaging stroke recurrence in cryptogenic transient ischemic attack and minor stroke patients

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3387-3388

  Bal, Simerpreet ^a,c   Patel, Shiel K ^a   Almekhlafi, Mohammed ^d   Modi, Jayesh ^a   Demchuk, Andrew M ^a,b   Coutts, Shelagh B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Minor stroke; Recurrent event; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

EID: 84870872669     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.671172     Document Type: Article

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