Refinement of Imaging Predictors of Recurrent Events following Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor Stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Horton, Myles ^a   Modi, Jayesh ^a   Patel, Shiel K ^a   Demchuk, Andrew M ^a,c   Goyal, Mayank ^a,c   Hill, Michael D ^a,b,c   Coutts, Shelagh B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYMPTOM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WHITE MATTER LESION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84879263954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065752     Document Type: Article

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