Diagnostic yield of emergency department arch-to-vertex CT angiography in patients with suspected acute stroke

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 265-268

  Deipolyi, A R ^a   Hamberg, L M ^b   Gonzalez R G ^a   Hirsch, J A ^a   Hunter, G J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE CALCULATOR; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NECK; PATIENT CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922837736     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A4112     Document Type: Article

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