Circle of Willis configuration as a determinant of intracranial dolichoectasia

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 446-453

  Gutierrez, Jose ^a   Sultan, Sally ^a   Bagci, Ahmet ^c   Rundek, Tatjana ^c   Alperin, Noam ^c   Elkind, Mitchell S V ^a,b   Sacco, Ralph L ^c   Wright, Clinton B ^c  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b University of Miami ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial diameters; Circle of Willis anatomy; Dolichoectasia

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL DOLICHOECTASIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84890952962     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000356347     Document Type: Article

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