Good clinical outcome in a patient with a large CT scan hypodensity treated with intra-arterial urokinase after an embolic stroke

Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1076-1078

  Tarr, R ^b   Taylor, C L ^b   Selman, W R ^a   Lewin, J S ^b   Landis, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UROKINASE;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029804625     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.47.4.1076     Document Type: Article

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