Leukoaraiosis, a Common Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Finding, as a Predictor of Traffic Crashes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Park, Kaechang ^a   Nakagawa, Yoshinori ^a   Kumagai, Yasuhiko ^a   Nagahara, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIVENTRICULAR LEUKOARAIOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBCORTICAL LEUKOARAIOSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84874230749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057255     Document Type: Article

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