Imaging of cerebrovascular disease in pregnancy and the puerperium

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 26-38

  Hacein Bey, Lotfi ^a,b   Varelas, Panayiotis N ^c   Ulmer, John L ^d   Mark, Leighton P ^d   Raghavan, Kesav ^e   Provenzale, James M ^f  

^a Sutter Health ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular; MRI; Postpartum; Pregnancy; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION RUPTURE; ARTERY DISSECTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CERVICOCEPHALIC ARTERIAL DISSECTION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECLAMPSIA; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; REVIEW; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROCEDURES; PUERPERAL DISORDERS;

CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PUERPERAL DISORDERS;

EID: 84952027635     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.15.15059     Document Type: Review

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