Association between carotid artery plaque type and cerebral microbleeds

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2144-2150

  Saba, Luca ^a   Montisci, R ^b   Raz, E ^c   Sanfilippo, R ^b   Suri, J S ^d,e   Piga, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Global Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84871782676     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3133     Document Type: Article

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