Decreased corticospinal tract fractional anisotropy predicts long-term motor outcome after stroke

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2016-2018

  Puig, Josep ^a   Blasco, Gerard ^a   Daunis I Estadella, Josep ^b   Thomalla, Götz ^c   Castellanos, Mar ^a   Figueras, Jaume ^a   Remollo, Sebastián ^a   Van Eendenburg, Cecile ^a   Sánchez González, Javier ^d   Serena, Joaquín ^a   Pedraza, Salvador ^a  

^a GIRONA BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBGI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebral ischemia; diffusion tensor imaging; fractional anisotropy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84879946638     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.000382     Document Type: Article

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