A simple brain atrophy measure improves the prediction of malignant middle cerebral artery infarction by acute DWI lesion volume

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 261, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1097-1103

  Beck, Christoph ^a   Kruetzelmann, Anna ^a   Forkert, Nils D ^a   Juettler, Eric ^b   Singer, Oliver C ^c   Köhrmann, Martin ^d   Kersten, Jan F ^a   Sobesky, Jan ^e   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Fiehler, Jens ^a   Schellinger, Peter D ^f   Röther, Joachim ^g   Thomalla, Götz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Rehabilitationskrankenhaus Ulm gGmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f KLINIKUM MINDEN   (Germany)

^g ASKLEPIOS KLINIK ALTONA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute; Brain atrophy; Diffusion weighted; Magnetic resonance imaging; Malignant cerebral infarction; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN SWELLING; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERCAUDATE DISTANCE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWELLING; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84903575505     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-014-7324-9     Document Type: Article

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