Evaluating intracranial atherosclerosis rather than intracranial stenosis

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 645-651

  Leng, Xinyi ^a   Wong, Ka Sing ^a   Liebeskind, David S ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collateral circulation; Fractional flow reserve, myocardial; Intracranial arteriosclerosis; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL STENOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEUROIMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE PATIENT; SYMPTOM; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; PERFUSION IMAGING; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84893682196     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002491     Document Type: Review

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