Clinical stroke penumbra: Use of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale as a surrogate for CT perfusion in patient triage for intra-arterial middle cerebral artery stroke therapy

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1893-1900

  Boxerman, Jerrold L ^a   Jayaraman, M V ^a   Mehan, W A ^b   Rogg, J M ^a   Haas, R A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PERFUSION IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870932283     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3102     Document Type: Article

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