The 'silence' of silent brain infarctions may be related to chronic ischemic preconditioning and nonstrategic locations rather than to a small infarction size

Clinics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 365-369

  Feng, Chao ^a   Bai, Xue ^a   Xu, Yu ^b   Hua, Ting ^b   Liu, Xue Yuan ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Leukoaraiosis; Silent brain infarctions; Small vessel disease; Symptomatic lacunar infarctions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACUNAR STROKE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE, LACUNAR;

EID: 84878157160     PISSN: 18075932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6061/clinics/2013(03)OA13     Document Type: Article

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