Intracranial Artery Atherosclerosis and Lumen Dilation in Cerebral Small-Vessel Diseases: A High-resolution MRI Study

CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 364-367

  Xu, Wei Hai ^a   Li, Ming Li ^a   Niu, Jing Wen ^a   Feng, Feng ^a   Jin, Zheng Yu ^a   Gao, Shan ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Atheroma; Lacunar infarct; Magnetic resonance imaging; Middle cerebral artery; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN SLICE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER LESION; ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPLICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROCEDURES; VASCULARIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ORGAN SIZE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84896046799     PISSN: 17555930     EISSN: 17555949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cns.12224     Document Type: Article

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