Clinical and imaging characteristics of isolated pontine infarcts: A one-year follow-up study

Neurological Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 498-504

  Ju, Yi ^a   Hussain, Mohammed ^b   Asmaro, Karam ^c   Zhao, Xingquan ^a   Liu, Liping ^a   Li, Jingjing ^a   Wang, Yongjun ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basilar stenosis; Diffusion weighted imaging; MR angiography; Outcome; Pontine infarction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PONS; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84878314895     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132813Y.0000000207     Document Type: Article

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