Dolichoectasia diagnostic methods in a multi-ethnic, stroke-free cohort: Results from the northern manhattan study

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 226-231

  Gutierrez, Jose ^a   Bagci, Ahmet ^b   Gardener, Hannah ^b   Rundek, Tatjana ^b   Ekind, Mitchell S V ^a,c   Alperin, Noam ^b   Sacco, Ralph L ^b   Wright, Clinton B ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

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

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial remodeling; Dolichoectasia; MRA methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOLICHOECTASIA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL; VASCULAR DISEASE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; UNITED STATES; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84899640586     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2012.00781.x     Document Type: Article

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