Infarct patterns, collaterals and likely causative mechanisms of stroke in symptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 417-422

  López Cancio, Elena ^a   Matheus, Maria Gisele ^b   Romano, Jose G ^c   Liebeskind, David S ^d   Prabhakaran, Shyam ^e   Turan, Tanya N ^b   Cotsonis, George A ^f   Lynn, Michael J ^f   Rumboldt, Zoran ^b   Chimowitz, Marc I ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaterals; Infarct patterns; Intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis; Stenosis location; Warfarin Aspirin Symptomatic Intracranial Disease study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; STROKE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY EMBOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; INTRACRANIAL ATHEROSCLEROTIC STENOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERFORATOR OCCLUSION; PERFUSION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STENOSIS;

ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; STROKE;

EID: 84903872888     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000362922     Document Type: Article

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