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In patients with suspected acute stroke, CT perfusion-based cerebral blood flow maps cannot substitute for DWI in measuring the ischemic core

BACKGROUND: Neuroimaging may guide acute stroke treatment by measuring the volume of brain tissue in the irreversibly injured “ischemic core.” The most widely accepted core volume measurement technique is diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI). However, some claim that measuring regional cerebral blood flow (...

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Autores principales: Copen, William A., Yoo, Albert J., Rost, Natalia S., Morais, Lívia T., Schaefer, Pamela W., González, R. Gilberto, Wu, Ona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29190675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188891