MRI findings and stroke risk in TIA patients with different symptom durations

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 1920-1926

  Al Khaled, Mohamed ^a   Eggers, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SYMPTOM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WEAKNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879075697     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318293e15f     Document Type: Article

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