Posterior circulation ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack: Diagnosis, investigation, and secondary prevention

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 989-998

  Markus, Hugh S ^a   van der Worp, H Bart ^b   Rothwell, Peter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL;

AMNESIA; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ATAXIC GAIT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIPLOPIA; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DYSARTHRIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; ORAL PARESTHESIA; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR CIRCULATION; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VERTIGO;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMORBIDITY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STROKE; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84884158496     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(13)70211-4     Document Type: Review

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